by John Macdonald | Feb 19, 2026 | AI, Leadership, The250
Middle management gets a bad rap in corporate America. Professional meeting organizers Professional delegators PowerPoint creators The people who stop me from doing what I want to do Buzzword ninjas However, quiality middle managers are good at: Goal decomposition... by John Macdonald | Feb 18, 2026 | AI, Human, Leadership, The250
Struggle first on your own. Then pull in AI. David Epstein wrote a great article about whether AI is rotting our brains, based on an MIT study. I wrote about it also. Spoiler Alert: It depends. Basically, start with yourself, rather than starting with AI. The best... by John Macdonald | Feb 17, 2026 | AI, Human, Leadership, Technology, The250
When I first started The250, my writing and publishing were 100% manual. Here’s the original workflow for The250: I’d start with a topic (or a few) that I’d been thinking about. If necessary, do some research. Open Grammarly, start writing. Iterate in Grammarly until... by John Macdonald | Feb 16, 2026 | AI, Human, Technology, The250
A former colleague of mine posted on LinkedIn that he sent 25000 prompts to AI 2025 to help him learn whether AI can help design complex ICs. Spoiler alert: Yes, of course. I estimate I’ve probably sent double or triple that many prompts over the 2.5 years I’ve been... by John Macdonald | Feb 15, 2026 | AI, Technology, The250
We hear the word agent quite a bit now with AI. Agents work on instructions. Free agents work on incentives. Let’s be clear about what kind of agents we’re talking about. Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share...