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The Power of Framework Thinking

In the world of biopharm operations management (where I spend a lot of time), complexity is a daily reality. Over the last decade, I have become a believer in the power of framework thinking and even a collector of sorts.

barlows.blog · EN

Turning Problem-Explaining into Solutions

Explaining a problem to your manager is only half a solution. How to complete the circle, identify solutions, and show cost, benefits and delivery timelines.

Phroneses.com · EN

Why Agentic Coding Needs Extra Staff to Stay Stable

Agentic systems generate far more code but also around 1.2 production defects per day, requiring extra fix capacity to stay stable.

Phroneses.com · EN

AI: the reality

LLMs excel at generating new artefacts but fail when asked to interpret and safely update existing ones. Their value lies in text creation tasks (research, summary, explanation, deep dives), not system modification.

Phroneses.com · EN

The International AI Race May Not Be Won by the Smartest AI

The AI race may not be won by the smartest model, but by whoever can embed enough intelligence into the physical economy at the greatest scale.

Phroneses.com · EN

Estimates do not give you what you want

Estimates are poor tools for managing uncertainty and humans are poor at generating them.

Phroneses.com · EN

The Rogue Agent Myth: Why AI Agents Need Boundaries More Than Goals

Recent reports of AI going rogue are misleading and sensationalist. The AI is not rogue: agentic systems pursue objectives literally, making explicit boundaries, constraints, and escalation paths as important as the goals themselves.

Phroneses.com · EN

A Model of Human Cognition: From Observation to Theory

Humans do not merely recognize patterns. They construct progressively richer representations from their observations. This article proposes a typed model of cognition in which learning is the creation of higher-order representational objects and thinking is the recursive manipulation of those objects.

Phroneses.com · EN

An Holistic Framework for Shared Design Leadership

Picture this: You’re in a meeting room at your tech company, and two people are having what looks like the same conversation about the same design problem. One is talking about whether the team has the right skills to tackle it. The other is diving deep into whether the solution actually solves the user’s problem. Same room, same problem, completely different lenses. This is the beautiful, sometimes messy reality of having both a Design Manager and a Lead Designer on the same team. And if you’re wondering how to make this work without creating confusion, overlap, or the dreaded “too many cooks

A List Apart · EN

Dropbox CTO Ali Dasdan on moving from AI adoption to transformation

Meaningful AI gains depend on rethinking workflows, measuring real outcomes, and keeping human judgment at the center of how work gets done.

Dropbox Tech · EN