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My Agent Stack
I maintain a broader post about the tools I use to run my life and business. This is the AI slice: what sits behind my agent team. The test I apply to anything in this list: if my laptop is closed, can the team keep working? That's the
Alignment Is the Risk Nobody Talks About
You can feel it before you can name it. The company is growing. Hiring is up. Teams are shipping. The board deck looks healthy. But something is off. Meetings take longer than they should. Decisions get revisited. Good people leave and nobody can explain why. There is a drag on
Vision to Values: The 9 Misunderstood Blocks of Aligned Teams
Most leadership teams are misaligned. And it’s not because they don’t care. It’s because no one taught them how to align the building blocks of vision, strategy, and culture with the same discipline as a well-run product org. The result? * Goals become unclear * Decisions get harder
The Systems and Tools and I Use to Run My Life and Business
Last updated: April 2025 I’ve always been fascinated by personal productivity. Not for the sake of ticking boxes, but as a means of unlocking human potential. That interest started early. While on exchange at Copenhagen Business School, I began planning the first TEDxMacquarieUniversity event. The team I was leading
1-2-1: Avoidance costs more than the wrong call
I've started asking leaders a different question: "What decision have you been delaying?" The answer is usually the thing their team is most stuck on. You think the decision is paused. The team thinks you've already made it. 1 Principle The decisions you'
1-2-1: Your team isn't resisting AI
I've stopped taking "my team won't adopt AI" at face value. It's almost always shorthand for "I haven't told them what I want." You said "use AI more". Nothing changed. 1 Principle Your team isn'
1-2-1: The bottleneck is you
The leaders I work with who feel busiest are usually the bottleneck their team is trying to work around. Your week was full. Your team spent it queueing. 1 Principle A leader's day is measured in what got unblocked, not what got done. Personal productivity feels real. Team
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