Archive - The Maverick Mapmaker (on Multidisciplinary Teams & AI)

September 2025

Enough with the Playbooks and Frameworks!

Influencers obsess over playbooks and frameworks, but the biggest wins happen when you start messy.

Sep 29 •

Stop Hiring Experienced Candidates

When the Beginner's Mind Beats Industry Experience

Sep 26 •

Why Ravens May Rule the Future of Work

M-Skilled Workers Are Becoming the Ultimate Orchestrators in an AI-Driven World

Sep 22 •

The Revenge of Command-and-Control

Supposedly autonomous AI might cause managers to abandon decades of empowerment and return to micromanagement.

Sep 15 •

Let's Start from Scratch: Organizational Design in the Age of AI

Introducing the Harmony Pattern Language for Hybrid Teams

Sep 11 •

The Truth About Writing with AI (And Why Critics Are Missing the Point)

The reader's experience is more important than the writer's process.

Sep 8 •

I Started Drawing Maps

Because I need to be more M-skilled.

Sep 4 •

Using the System Against Itself

A Pattern Language for Human-AI Organizations—Created with AI

Sep 1 •

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