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"Prioritization" once meant finding the one, single most important thing. In the Latin root, prior was a singular absolute. There could be only one. But the world accelerated. Hence, the concept fragmented: we started juggling "priorities." In this post, we'll explore how the historic concept of prioritization breaks down in complex, high-velocity systems, and what a modern,

Artificial Intelligence can be a blessing and a curse. While developing VXS, I have come upon a personal reflection exercise: At the end of every working day, I tell my IDE AI to "please explain all the changes we have made today." Then, I feed the output into chatGPT and ask it, "Please provide for me a conservative estimate for this backlog." The result is usually something...

"Strategy" has a bad rap in many teams - not because it's a bad thing, but because in most companies, it's disconnected. Disconnected from reality, from their work, from the situation they are facing. A team lead recently told me, "We're not involved in strategy. That's someone else's job. We just get told our job, and then we do it." And that's how strategy goes to die before