The structure of an excellent operating update

Great updates are hidden in plain sight. They make an observable bet and aren't shy to revisit that bet. Read: "Everything starts looking like a toy…

9 hrs ago • Greg Meyer

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Why organizations keep forgetting

Why do companies get "update amnesia"? We keep every record and lose the one thing that mattered: what we believed at the time. Read: "Everything starts…

Aug 3 • Greg Meyer

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July 2026

The atomic unit of organizational learning

Most team updates are receipts. The ones that record what you expected become experiments — the only kind you can learn from. Read: "Everything starts…

Jul 27 • Greg Meyer

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Nobody has defined a good operating update

When you get a team update, is it additive? It should be. Here are a few ideas to make updates better. Read: "Everything starts looking like a toy" #306

Jul 20 • Greg Meyer

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June 2026

How many AI Agents can one human manage?

Your next job is managing agents, and the limit isn't their intelligence, but span of control. One human can only steer so many agents. Read…

Jun 29 • Greg Meyer

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AI Won't Take Your Job, But Not Using It Might

Adopting AI isn't a skill you lack: it's a mindset. Build repeatable machines that do your work, then become the person who grades them. Read…

Jun 22 • Greg Meyer

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Your chat should actually get work done

Chat ends at the reply. Work doesn't, and I built an inbox and an Agent Playground to learn what ops actually needs from an Agent on your team. Read…

Jun 1 • Greg Meyer

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May 2026

Design the goal, not the path

Every support team's routing logic has a clean core and a stack of sticky-note exceptions on top. Procedurally correct, and operationally fragile. Read…

May 18 • Greg Meyer

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Everyone has a launch plan until you ship it

In the age of vibecoding, it's easy to build a product. It's still hard to build a good product that survives first contact with a user's intent. Read…

May 4 • Greg Meyer

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April 2026

Build the info radiator

If a piece of household status has to reach more than one person in the room, it belongs on an object, not a phone. Read: "Everything starts looking…

Apr 20 • Greg Meyer

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How a dad joke became my tech rubric

Four years of the same dad joke API on five different stacks — and what each rebuild actually taught me. Read: "Everything starts looking like a toy…

Apr 13 • Greg Meyer

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March 2026

Stop Designing Your Graphics. Start Compiling Them

Building production-ready graphics that don't look like AI slop isn't easy. The secret: use AI as an orchestrator, not as the artist. Read: "Everything…

Mar 30 • Greg Meyer

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