Business

Frontview Mirror: 2025 Edition

Thoughts on what might be an extremely turbulent year

The Most Important Sentence

I've noticed that people who can fill in this sentence are much happier than those who can't

Policy, SOPs, and AI Are All You Need

How AI-powered Policy and SOPs will soon run teams, departments, and companies

The End of Work

My big, depressing, and optimistic theory for why it's so hard to find and keep a job that makes you happy

We've Been Thinking About AI All Wrong

AI is just a way to execute Intelligence Tasks that only humans can (could) do

Companies Are Just a Graph of Algorithms

AI is about to see your company as a series of components to be optimized

The Value of Elite Colleges is Relationships with Elite People

The difference between elite and state education is minimal, but the connections are worlds apart

Personal AIs Will Mediate Everything

What happens to user-facing businesses when most interaction happens through AI?

I Think 80% of Jobs Go Away

The combination of factors I see leading to a killers-only workforce

SEC vs. SolarWinds is Cybersecurity's ENRON Moment

Cybersecurity just transitioned from wizardry to accounting, and the transition will be messy

How to Permanently Remove Your Fear of Public Speaking

The single mindset change that converted me from dreading to loving being on stage

Companies Only Want Hardcore Workers

Hiring managers are finding creative ways to filter out all but the most dedicated and least likely to complain

AI Will Likely Crush the B2B Services Economy

Unfortunately the overall services economy makes up ~77% of GDP, and B2B services are around half that

The Great Bifurcation

We're explosively separating into the Thriving 10% vs. the Suffering 90%, and its possible to be part of the 10% just by copying them

What I'm Doing and How It's Going

How I went from a $350K FTE to $700K+ doing my own thing

Media Engagement

Useful metadata for those who wish to engage for speaking, panels, TV, podcast, and other engagements

A Business Writing Primer

Technical Professions Progress from Magical to Boring

Maturity brings stability to industries, but with the tradeoff of losing the magic