Thinking out loud on product, people, and building companies worth working for.
AI just made building things cheap. It did not make knowing what to build cheap. Curiosity and persuasion are the two skills that gate-keep what should be built now that building is free, built on the Expectations & Impact Matrix Jon has used for a decade of career conversations.
Read →AI isn't deleting jobs; it's deleting tasks. A job is a bundle of tasks, and the senior skill in 2026 is the ability to walk into any work-system and identify which parts can be handed entirely to AI agents. The juniors who learn this lens will own the next decade. Part 3 of three.
Read →If software is still eating the world, what does the team that does the eating actually look like? Five recognizable seats — Project Lead, Product Owner, Senior Software Engineer, Product Designer — every one of them working at the top of their license, with AI agents doing everything else.
Read →AI is getting blamed for tech layoffs. The actual story is messier: big tech over-hired during ZIRP and corrected, while business formation hit record highs and stayed there. Part 1 of a three-part series on what changes when the cost of building software collapses.
Read →I tested the scaling wall framework against 51 real careers, 45 primary sources, and the Jevons Paradox. The result is a career disruption matrix that reaches the opposite conclusion from most of what's on your YouTube feed. 43 out of 51 careers land GOOD or PIVOT.
Read →Sixty years ago, economist William Baumol figured out exactly why service industries can't just grow their way out of a capacity shortage. The wall he described is real, structural, and everywhere. AI might be the first technology capable of lowering it.
Read →The dominant AI narrative is fear. But what if the real story is abundance — breaking through the ceilings that have held industries, entrepreneurs, and human potential back for decades?
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