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My thinking

The ideas worth circling back to - and where to read them in full.

Most of the writing circles one idea: Agile didn't fail, it ran out of context. Short loops and working software were the right instinct. What never updated was the operating model - it still assumes a team is a fixed number of people, long after that team quietly became people plus a roomful of AI agents. SHIFT, the book, works the whole argument out.

The frameworks are mostly names for things the industry keeps circling without quite landing:

Hydrowaves that move at the speed of their dependenciesopen source, CC BY 4.0
Context Engineeringgiving AI the right context, deliberatelya discipline of its own
Transmission Belttranslating board-time into sprint-timewhere most senior product work lives
Execution is becoming trivial. Thinking is becoming scarce. The ability to say no is the new superpower.

Most of it gets worked out in public on Substack; the book is the long form.

Want me to unpack any one of them?