The Great Role Realignment
When desktop publishing arrived in the late 1980s, entire departments existed around a single production chain. Paste-up artists arranged layouts by hand. Typographers set type as a dedicated craft. Color separators prepared printing plates. Darkroom technicians processed film. Each person was excellent at one narrow piece of the process and handed off to the next. Within a decade, a single graphic designer with a Mac could own the entire workflow. The roles did not disappear. They collapsed ...
The Great Role Realignment
When desktop publishing arrived in the late 1980s, entire departments existed around a single production chain. Paste-up artists arranged layouts by hand. Typographers set type as a dedicated craft. Color separators prepared printing plates. Darkroom technicians processed film. Each person was excellent at one narrow piece of the process and handed off to the next. Within a decade, a single graphic designer with a Mac could own the entire workflow. The roles did not disappear. They collapsed ...
AI Is Reshaping How Companies Are Built. Hire the Wrong Talent Leader and You'll Feel It.
AI shrunk your headcount. That didn't make hiring easier. It made every hire carry the weight of 3 or 4 roles. Welcome to precision hiring. Companies aren't making bad hires. They're hiring great people for jobs that don't exist anymore. Your talent leader needs to understand how AI works across every function, push you to rethink archetypes and responsibilities, and build leaner teams that leverage AI. When it's 15 hires not 50, who those 15 are is everything.
AI Is Reshaping How Companies Are Built. Hire the Wrong Talent Leader and You'll Feel It.
AI shrunk your headcount. That didn't make hiring easier. It made every hire carry the weight of 3 or 4 roles. Welcome to precision hiring. Companies aren't making bad hires. They're hiring great people for jobs that don't exist anymore. Your talent leader needs to understand how AI works across every function, push you to rethink archetypes and responsibilities, and build leaner teams that leverage AI. When it's 15 hires not 50, who those 15 are is everything.
Network Velocity: Evaluating Hiring Networks for Speed, Not Size
Hiring someone with 10,000 connections who takes 3 months to fill one role? Or 800 connections who fills four in the same time? The difference is Network Velocity—and most founders evaluate it wrong. Here's the framework that changes how you hire talent and leadership.
Network Velocity: Evaluating Hiring Networks for Speed, Not Size
Hiring someone with 10,000 connections who takes 3 months to fill one role? Or 800 connections who fills four in the same time? The difference is Network Velocity—and most founders evaluate it wrong. Here's the framework that changes how you hire talent and leadership.
3 Hiring Shifts Founders Need to Make For 2026
Navigating the Talent Divide: Essential Hiring Strategies for AI and Crypto Founders in 2026
3 Hiring Shifts Founders Need to Make For 2026
Navigating the Talent Divide: Essential Hiring Strategies for AI and Crypto Founders in 2026
AI Wants Pedigree. Crypto Wants Proof. The Real Filter is Ownership.
AI companies hire from Stanford and MIT. Crypto companies hire builders who ship onchain. On paper, these look like opposite philosophies—one hyper-institutional, one anti-institutional. But when you look at who actually succeeds in both industries, they're the same people. Extreme owners who treat their role like they're the founder, ship without waiting for permission, and make work their identity. The hiring signals differ. The trait being selected for is identical. Both industries are mis...
AI Wants Pedigree. Crypto Wants Proof. The Real Filter is Ownership.
AI companies hire from Stanford and MIT. Crypto companies hire builders who ship onchain. On paper, these look like opposite philosophies—one hyper-institutional, one anti-institutional. But when you look at who actually succeeds in both industries, they're the same people. Extreme owners who treat their role like they're the founder, ship without waiting for permission, and make work their identity. The hiring signals differ. The trait being selected for is identical. Both industries are mis...
