by John Macdonald | Apr 3, 2026 | Human, Technology, The250
I realized something about myself today. In most circumstances, I believe tools are the answer. Not more continuous effort. Not more attention. Not more people. Tools are what I do. It’s how I think. It’s what I build. It’s what I apply to problems. I’d rather spend... by John Macdonald | Apr 2, 2026 | AI, Technology, The250
The product-development visionaries. We celebrate them. We write books about them. We (sometimes) wish we were them. All product development requires trade-offs, decisions, and up-front thinking due to the costs associated with various tasks. You can’t try everything.... by John Macdonald | Apr 1, 2026 | Human, Technology, The250
Technology allows us to debate the concept of right work and wrong work. Talking heads holler over each other about it. Academics pontificate about it. Friends argue in the bar about it. But make no mistake. If you don’t have income, any work that comes along is the... by John Macdonald | Mar 29, 2026 | AI, Leadership, Technology, The250
I’ve found myself in a frantic state of chaos recently. Agentic AI provides the illusion of multitasking, and I fell into its trap. “I can do 8 things at once!” No, I can’t. Oh, but I tried. No, I can’t. Leading an agentic AI workforce requires the same approach as... by John Macdonald | Mar 27, 2026 | AI, Technology, The250
Yesterday, AI totally screwed up my machine and whole day. The symptoms were pegged CPU (fan spinning loudly), “unable to fork” messages when trying to run Terminal commands, and 1000’s of grep, curl, and python processes running out of control. That last clause... by John Macdonald | Mar 20, 2026 | AI, Human, Leadership, Technology, The250
One way to think about technology is that its purpose is to solve problems of scarcity. More and easier access to something we need or want. Once the scarcity is solved, tech inevitably leads to abundance, and abundance leads to faster, better, cheaper. And we as...