Today I launch the co-intelligent organisation book. It will be written in public, learning and looping and sensing as I go. Preface: These are the questions guiding me. They came after I wrote The Helix Moment, which was about strategy, design, and AI. I had spent twenty years in
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Trust. The single biggest challenge for enterprise Agent adoption. In my new book launching next week as a serial, The Co-Intelligent Organisation, a key aspect of the second part of the book, The License is the ability for organisations to build the capability and maturity to adopt and launch
If markdown is the co-intelligent document format, what is a co-intelligent tool? Salesforce, one of the companies that helped create the SaaS era, is now showing us what comes next. For the past two decades, SaaS software was built for humans. We were the users. We clicked the
Co-Intelligent Org
Exponential growth of AI is creating a new kind of challenge. How will humans and organisations actually move forward?
The biggest change in 2025 for coders was -- launch of claude code and Opus 4.5 which brought a real agentic approach. If we have to become a co-intelligent leader the first step is to become fluent in AI. And not just a chat but a real agentic approach.
Steve Yegge launched GasTown on Jan 1 2026. Gas Town is basically how you can use claude code to create a team (mayor, polecat, crew, beads etc) to manage more claude codes and create more work. The whole idea is the idea of "orchestration" and beads as the
Every industry has physical infrastructure. Roads, power grids, internet cables. Without them, everything slows down or stops. What's less visible is the infrastructure that determines how freely people can experiment. The systems — or absence of systems — that decide whether someone can try a bold idea, fail safely, and
We are going to live in a human-agent co-intelligent future. If that is the case, what is the file that works for both? Word was for text. Excel for numbers. PPT for presentations. Markdown for agents and humans. John Gruber created markdown as a simple way to make
A Stanford economist just proved what we've been saying all along. Not with opinions. With math. Charles I. Jones, one of the world's leading growth economists, published a paper this month that should be required reading for every executive drowning in AI hype. The title: "
How Australia's food labelling system got frozen in 2014 — and why Rules as Code could fix it The Cornflakes Box You're standing in your kitchen at 7am, half-awake, pouring cornflakes into a bowl. On the front of the box: 4.0 stars. Four and a
Last week, Nature published one of the most quietly consequential papers in AI history. The title was clinical: "Does AI already have human-level intelligence?" The conclusion was not: We have artificial systems that are generally intelligent. The long-standing problem of creating AGI has been solved. Within
I went to bed at midnight with a problem. I needed to drop 10kg. I'd known it for months. But like every other time, the tracking fell apart the moment pressure hit. Client deadlines landed, the fitness app notifications got swiped away, and three weeks later I'