by John Macdonald | Jun 20, 2026 | AI, Human, Leadership, Technology, The250
One of the first things I learned when working on a construction crew as a teenager was, “clean up after yourself!” Don’t leave the tools, scrap material, and extra material lying around. It’s fine during the work process, but we cleanup and leave it tidy before we go... by John Macdonald | Jun 18, 2026 | Human, Leadership, Technology, The250
If you’re budgeting across personnel and tokens, you can take either of these two paths. You can try to do more with less, or do less with more. More output, more ideas, and more value. Or less scattershot, less distractions, and less surface area. Either can lead to... by John Macdonald | Jun 15, 2026 | Human, Leadership, The250
We have a love/hate relationship with deadlines. Parkinson’s Law states that work expands to fill the available time. For example, if you schedule a 60-minute meeting, you’ll talk for 60 minutes, even if 15 would have been enough. So common-sense efficiency dictates... by John Macdonald | Jun 14, 2026 | AI, Human, Leadership, Technology, The250
Growing your human team still matters. In fact, in today’s world of AI teams augmenting human teams, it might even matter more as personnel budgets split between humans and tokens. Each person on the team matters more. And they must not only interface with other... by John Macdonald | Jun 13, 2026 | Leadership, Technology, The250
Software releases have version numbers. It’s how we know, both internally and externally, what this thing is that we just unleashed. “We” is many different people: The customer-facing people. The version number serves as a marketing communication tool. “This version... by John Macdonald | Jun 12, 2026 | Human, Leadership, The250
“What are we doing here?” A good question to ask in both a geographical and operational situation. What are we doing here? Meaning physically here. How did we get here? Do we know where we are? Is this where we want to be? Where are we going? What are we doing here?...