AI coding velocity is a bubble. Just like offshoring, we're trading long-term maintainability for the illusion of speed.Read "The velocity bubble"

Everyone's celebrating the productivity gains of AI. Solo founders building businesses overnight, massive automation gains. The wins are visible and intoxicating, but the cost is invisible.One post nailed it: "AI now sits where the senior used to sit." Nobody's learning anymore, they're just shipping. Speed shows up on dashboards, capability doesn't.We're burning our knowledge foundation to release a little bit faster.Music by Dvir Silverstone from Pixabay

My grandfather worked at one company his whole life and they paid for my grandmother's healthcare until she died. What happened to that kind of loyalty?MonopsonyThe Lintotype machineFarewell, Etaoin Shrdlu

If you want to bring your staff back to the office, at least have the decency to be honest about the reasoning, and don't pretend that innovation requires collocation. Read and subscribe to the text version of this episode here: https://thecuriousleader.work/posts/the-fallacy-of-stochastic-invention/ Find out more about coaching on my website: https://aaronbieber.coach

Sometimes a new perspective reveals the foolishness in an activity that we carry out with great seriousness and zeal. What can a very funny comic strip poking fun at AI tools teach us about this? Read and subscribe to the text version of this episode here: https://thecuriousleader.work/posts/on-the-importance-of-writing/ Find out more about coaching on my website: https://aaronbieber.coach

The foundation of a healthy working relationship is agreement. Even when people have differences of opinion—and they always will—getting everyone on the same page about broader goals and individual motivations produces better outcomes. Read and subscribe to the newsletter version of this show here: https://thecuriousleader.work/posts/how-to-agree-on-something/ Learn more about my coaching at https://aaronbieber.coach

Instead of bringing you another analysis of a leadership topic laced through and through with my opinions, I thought it would be fun to share a new perspective. This time, from my old friend and former start-up colleague Brian Guthrie. Brian recently started a company to help tech leaders visualize and execute smooth re-orgs, so we talked about that. What makes re-orgs hard? What would make them easier? Brian's company, OrgSpace, can be found here: https://orgspace.io/ Learn more about Daniel Terhorst-North here: https://dannorth.net/about/ The book "Dynamic Reteaming" by Heidi Helfand can be found here: https://amzn.to/3p8BAd5 Read and subscribe to the newsletter version of this show here: https://thecuriousleader.work/posts/do-more-reorgs-with-brian-guthrie/ Find out more about my coaching work here: https://aaronbieber.coach

Can you think of any other skill that is required, crucial, has a wide breadth of mastery with a direct impact on the operations of a business, and which nobody is ever trained to do? Read and subscribe to the text version of this episode here: https://thecuriousleader.work/posts/on-the-importance-of-writing/ Find out more about coaching on my website: https://aaronbieber.coach

History has taught us that seeking simplicity, while often well-intentioned, can be disastrous. To be the nimble and effective leader who can manage through complexity with ease, you’ll need to do one thing that many leaders never learn to do: let go. Read and subscribe to the newsletter version of this program! If you love this, buy me a coffee. I love coffee.

When a program doesn’t work and you don’t know why, the first thing you reach for is a debugger. Whether that’s a process-attached tool like GDB, the Dev Tools panel of your browser, or just a series of logger.log("now I'm here (3)"); statements littered through the code (my preferred method), you’ll soon have it figured out. What if there was a way to apply the same deliberate, iterative approach to management challenges? Surprise, there is! Read this episode and subscribe via email right here! Learn more about how coaching can help you reach YOUR full potential.