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AI Has Ruined Our Ignorance
I Did Something Dumb and I'm Proud of It
 • Jurgen Appelo
The Tragedy of the Agents
Skills are the new patterns and practices. And that might be a problem.
 • Jurgen Appelo
Why Viability Overrides Agility
Viability versus agility reveals why long-term business survival matters more than speed
 • Jurgen Appelo
Choose Your Technology Adoption Strategy: When to Migrate
Five migration strategies for technology adoption: from eclectic Explorer to strategic Straggler
 • Jurgen Appelo
The Solo Chief
You're the strategist, the operator, and the single wringable neck. Welcome.
 • Jurgen Appelo
Closing the Lid on the Echo Chamber
How to Be Less Like Everyone Else and Start Thinking for Yourself
 • Jurgen Appelo
Calm Down, Doomers. There Is No Sign of Cultural Decline.
From Cambrian explosions to infinite Blue Oceans: the "End of Creativity" is a hallucination.
 • Jurgen Appelo
A Map for Agentic Transformation
Dump the maturity model ladder. This agentic transformation map uses 5 organizational archetypes to diagnose where you are.
 • Jurgen Appelo
The Agentic Organization
Building AI Highways to Bypass Human Traffic Jams
 • Jurgen Appelo
It's Not Always Cold in the True North
AI demands radical honesty about company values, mission, and principles in the future of work.
 • Jurgen Appelo
The Four Tensions of Sociotechnical Systems
From Political Compass to Viable System Model: Autonomy, Control, Adaptation, and Purpose
 • Jurgen Appelo
The Stochastic Parrot vs. the Sophistic Monkey: I Trust AI More Than Most Humans
In a world drowning in human bias and misinformation, artificial intelligence offers surprisingly reasonable answers.
 • Jurgen Appelo
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