Wow - I’ve read probably 100,000 words on AI this week, and this was the most parsimonious. A similar way to frame the duality is a choice between reductionism and holism. Reductionism has been a driving force in our society for a long time. All of the major institutions that make up society have reductionists designs.
Then there is human reality. What we experience. Our individual imperfections which are magnified in social systems.
What’s wonderful is that AI actually presents the opportunity to redesign basically everything in a way that’s actually more congruent with human experience than the current systems.
That said, we are currently seeing how the technology works when it’s jolted into legacy systems.
Perhaps that’s what we should think more about - what do the new systems realistically look like?
Because it’s clear that AI is going to break legacy systems very soon.
The article from cpj.fyi on INSEAD org chart change leads to a paper that does not exist. It's not on the INSEAD website and did not come up in searches.
It’s incredibly jarring to hear product leaders and VCs on podcasts go intensely optimistic while layoffs and fear are what’s happening in the trenches. I’m glad you’re talking about this - it’s very complex and won’t change soon.
"What struck me is how obvious this is to anyone (with a systems thinking, complexity-aware brain) in product development, and how counterintuitive it is to anyone outside of product development."
Could you expand on this sentence (below) at the end of the first section? Why is Saas’s system of record/source of truth less useful than others argue?
“But if the promise is actual outcomes in the complex world of product development, things get shaky.”
My claim is that in product development is it shaky, because it captures so little context, and it treats things (e.g., "Epics" or "Points", etc.) as real units of legibility
Wow - I’ve read probably 100,000 words on AI this week, and this was the most parsimonious. A similar way to frame the duality is a choice between reductionism and holism. Reductionism has been a driving force in our society for a long time. All of the major institutions that make up society have reductionists designs.
Then there is human reality. What we experience. Our individual imperfections which are magnified in social systems.
What’s wonderful is that AI actually presents the opportunity to redesign basically everything in a way that’s actually more congruent with human experience than the current systems.
That said, we are currently seeing how the technology works when it’s jolted into legacy systems.
Perhaps that’s what we should think more about - what do the new systems realistically look like?
Because it’s clear that AI is going to break legacy systems very soon.
The article from cpj.fyi on INSEAD org chart change leads to a paper that does not exist. It's not on the INSEAD website and did not come up in searches.
Is it fake?
Sending you the PDF
Let me ask Clay.
Let me elaborate on „pessimism“ …
Let’s say everyone is augmented to the maximum that they can afford (shouldn’t be a stretch since we made that with university education as well)
Eventually you will be employable to the extend of the amount and quality of your tokens (left for the month?)
Suddenly we have tokens as a currency (we already have in crypto)
Now we’re like an ant length away from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time
At least that’s my current Sunnyvale Jet lag-nightmare… 😂
Wow this is one of the most insightful pieces I've read recently. Nicely done!
It’s incredibly jarring to hear product leaders and VCs on podcasts go intensely optimistic while layoffs and fear are what’s happening in the trenches. I’m glad you’re talking about this - it’s very complex and won’t change soon.
"What struck me is how obvious this is to anyone (with a systems thinking, complexity-aware brain) in product development, and how counterintuitive it is to anyone outside of product development."
So true.
Could you expand on this sentence (below) at the end of the first section? Why is Saas’s system of record/source of truth less useful than others argue?
“But if the promise is actual outcomes in the complex world of product development, things get shaky.”
My claim is that in product development is it shaky, because it captures so little context, and it treats things (e.g., "Epics" or "Points", etc.) as real units of legibility