Field notes on leadership.

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Enterprise Leader

You fix what you measure

When AI usage became a target at Amazon, some employees ran trivial tasks just to push it up. AI is making it easier to produce more. So we should ask ourselves whether we’re measuring more output or better outcomes.

October 21, 2026 · 2 minute read

People Leader

If AI writes the first draft, where does judgment come from?

The work AI now saves junior engineers from is the work that made me senior.

October 14, 2026 · 3 minute read

Enterprise Leader

AI wrote the code. Who pays the debt?

AI made writing code cheap. Understanding it did not get cheaper. That gap is where a new type of technical debt now lives, and it is widening.

September 30, 2026 · 2 minute read

Executive Presence

Deposit before you need it

The same ask gets a yes from one person, a no from another. The problem is not the ask. It is the balance in the mental bank account.

September 23, 2026 · 3 minute read

Executive Presence

I thought delivering was enough

For years I believed I should not have to market myself or my team. I thought that if you deliver, and deliver quality, the work should speak for itself.

September 16, 2026 · 2 minute read

Executive Presence

The chair my mentor lifted to prove a point

My mentor once stood in the middle of a packed restaurant, picked up his wooden chair, and lifted it over his head. On purpose. To prove a point about me.

September 9, 2026 · 2 minute read

See your own team in one of these?

Thirty minutes, no charge and no pitch. Tell me the gap you are trying to close, and I will tell you honestly whether coaching can help.