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The specialist PM is having a bad year
AI is multiplying decisions and shrinking the pieces they come in. The single-domain career was built for neither.
Jun 9 • Leif Linden
Carrying the Bag
The 2026 layoffs assumed AI would replace the work. The survivors are finding out which work it actually can.
Jun 4 • Leif Linden

May 2026

Productivity Is No Longer Free
Per-token prices are falling, yet enterprise AI bills are exploding. Both are true, and the reason rewrites who controls productivity.
May 28 • Leif Linden
Why the 2026 layoffs are a balance sheet story, not an AI story
If the layoffs were driven by productivity gains, the roles would be gone. They aren’t.
May 23 • Leif Linden
AI Agents Are Your Newest Customer – And Serving Them Needs Its Own Org Chart
The mobile-vs-web winners built their orgs around a new customer. Agentic shoppers are about to demand the same.
May 19 • Leif Linden
'Human Versus Agent' Is the New 'Web Versus Mobile'
And the 2012 mobile-strategy mistakes are about to repeat themselves.
May 13 • Leif Linden

April 2026

Executives Are Getting The Middle Management They Deserve
The AI shift is going to hit middle management hardest — and that's a strategic opportunity to redefine roles that have been allowed to hollow out.
Apr 30 • Leif Linden
Attention is a Human superpower. Leave Memory to the digital AI agents.
We need to recognize where our digital agents shine to unlock the greatest organizational gains
Apr 24 • Leif Linden
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