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Closing the Lid on the Echo Chamber

Between Criticism and Bliss

Calm Down, Doomers. There Is No Sign of Cultural Decline.

The Business Model Canvas Graveyard

A Map for Agentic Transformation

The Agentic Organization

It's Not Always Cold in the True North

The Post-AI Org Chart

The Future of Consulting

The Four Tensions of Sociotechnical Systems

My 18-Month Battle With Expert Hallucinations

You Cannot Please Everyone

From Zero to Substack Bestseller

The Stochastic Parrot vs. the Sophistic Monkey: Why I Trust AI More Than Most Humans

Office Hours /w Jurgen Appelo (October 17th)

The Ten Commandments of Viability in AI

Scrum Is Done. Finished. History.

How to Cope with Uncertainty About the Future

The Ultimate Guide to 100 Best AI Newsletters on Substack in 2025

The Ultimate Guide to 100 Best AI Newsletters on Substack in 2025

Enough with the Playbooks and Frameworks!

Stop Hiring Experienced Candidates

Why Ravens May Rule the Future of Work

The Revenge of Command-and-Control

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

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

I Started Drawing Maps

Using the System Against Itself

From Dollhouse to LEGO Bricks: Why Patterns Beat Frameworks

“You are arrogant, condescending, and disrespectful.”

Out of Office, But Not Out of Questions

AI Alignment? How About Human Alignment?

Nonfiction Top 40 of 2024

Don't Rely on AI Benchmarks. Do Your Own Testing. Like I Did.

M3K New Fundamentals for Leadership in the Age of AI (for paid subscribers)

Don't Panic!—The AI Job Apocalypse Is Coming (But Humans Will Always Have Work)

I'm Not Quitting Substack and I Refuse to Use Grok

Who Wants to Read for Four Hours a Day? I Do.

Is AI Making Us Lazy?—Our Four Cognitive Options

Are Large Corporations Too Big to Fail?

More Good and Bad Stuff

From Tyranny to Harmony

Admit it. You Secretly Love Boring Jobs.

In Times of Uncertainty, Insight Trumps Flow

Escape Velocity—How AI Will Achieve Peak Bullshit Work

I Really Don't Care If Your Company Dies

Drop the Framework Guides and Bullshit Manifestos

From DAO to NAO

Are CEOs Stupid? Or Just Stubborn?

Finding Purpose in the Chaos

When Do I Get My Networked Agentic Organization (NAO)?

The Rise of the Agentic Network Organization (ANO)

This Is Not a Manifesto But a Call for Harmony

How to Build Your Own Snarky AI Sidekick (and Survive the Experience)

Your New Role Is Collaborative Intelligence Architect and Orchestrator (CIAO)

THIS Is What Comes After "Agile Is Dead"

22 Conundrums in a Future of Work with AI

Why Bother? The Future of Learning.

Don’t Take Away My Stupid Tasks!

Kanban Must Evolve in the Age of AI

Top 240 AI Books (Updated 1-May-2025)

The Age of AI Will Reveal the True Agilists

Everything Looks Great When You Don't Know What You Want

When Methods and Frameworks Fail—the Challenge of Cognitive Overload

The Monster Setup Guide to Substack

You’re an Ignorant Fool—The Law of Tragic Nuance

Confessions of a Fearless Founder—From Crazy Bets to Safe Bets

Fluent in AI or Clueless About People?

LLMs Are Like Politicians—Confidently Wrong

Substack Sucks Less Than Others (That’s Why I’m There Now)

The Red Queen Says No to AI Agents

AI Wrecks the Corporate Career Ladder. Give Juniors the Steering Wheel!

Ten Times the Impact with One-Tenth the People

The AI Code Tsunami

Just Because You Can, Doesn’t Mean You Should

Hardcover Woes - Mea Culpa!

AI Should Go Fast So We Can Go Slow

Humans Are the Bottleneck

The Four Moats Theory™

AGI—Complex, Not Complicated