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Your Hyperdrive Advantage
Solo Operators Building Clunky AI Agent Stacks Now Will Claim a Whole Market Tomorrow
Apr 7
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Jurgen Appelo
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Your AI Agent Stack Is Spaghetti—It Should Be Lasagna
I'm building a three-layer AI agent architecture for my one-person business
Apr 1
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Jurgen Appelo
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The Sleepy Agent Boss
My five principles for building an AI agent orchestration architecture
Mar 18
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Jurgen Appelo
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Which AI Should I Use? A Guide for Solopreneurs (2026)
Benchmark scores won’t tell you which AI to use.
Mar 4
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Jurgen Appelo
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The Sassy AI Glossary for 2026
Essential and nonsensical AI terminology with 250+ definitions for the future of work
Jan 26
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Jurgen Appelo
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AI Rewrites the Advisory Playbook
How advisory boards and AI transform governance from theater to stewardship
Jan 16
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Jurgen Appelo
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Clean Up Your Data
I use Fibery to consolidate what I know about my readers, customers, and investors
Jan 14
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Jurgen Appelo
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The Solo Chief
You're the strategist, the operator, and the single wringable neck. Welcome.
Jan 5
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Jurgen Appelo
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The Agentic Organization
Building AI Highways to Bypass Human Traffic Jams
Nov 27, 2025
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Jurgen Appelo
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The Post-AI Org Chart
The Org Chart Was Built for the Industrial Age
Nov 17, 2025
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Jurgen Appelo
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Scrum Is Done. Finished. History.
Scrum was built for human teams, not AI agents. Business agility now needs two lanes—one for people, one for machines. Here's what comes next.
Oct 9, 2025
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Jurgen Appelo
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The Revenge of Command-and-Control
AI agents promise autonomy but demand command and control—threatening decades of team empowerment with a return to micromanagement.
Sep 15, 2025
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Jurgen Appelo
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