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by Matt Schone

writings to stay sharp in the age of machine-made words

Beyond Agile

Beyond Agile

From Waterfall to Agile to AI-native

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 27, 2025
The Asymmetry of Bullshit

The Asymmetry of Bullshit

How reality enforces its own exchange rate

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 26, 2025
Speculation vs. Shelter

Speculation vs. Shelter

Why the housing market feels broken, and what that says about us

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 25, 2025
The Paradox of Abundance

The Paradox of Abundance

Why more compute, more storage, more AI still doesn’t feel like enough

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 24, 2025
Ceilings and Floors

Ceilings and Floors

How every company (and person) hits invisible limits before breaking through to the next level

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 23, 2025
The Fragile Edge of Momentum

The Fragile Edge of Momentum

How easy it is to confuse luck for growth

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 22, 2025
The Pendulum of Mobile Tech

The Pendulum of Mobile Tech

The endless tug-of-war between native performance and developer speed

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 21, 2025
The Scarcity of Original Thought

The Scarcity of Original Thought

How organizations accidentally breed sameness

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 20, 2025
The Replatforming Trap

The Replatforming Trap

The hidden reason fast-growing companies stall out

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 19, 2025
The Meth We Gave Our Kids

The Meth We Gave Our Kids

What future generations will find absurd about us

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 18, 2025
Why Kids Hate Rules (and Adults Do Too)

Why Kids Hate Rules (and Adults Do Too)

Rules create boxes; principles open doors

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 17, 2025
The Post-AI Data Platform

The Post-AI Data Platform

Dashboards will look like fossils in ten years

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 16, 2025
The Illusion of Alignment

The Illusion of Alignment

Why most companies think they're aligned but are not

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 15, 2025
Learned Helplessness in Organizations

Learned Helplessness in Organizations

The hidden psychology behind stagnation

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 14, 2025
The Loneliness of Building

The Loneliness of Building

The quiet struggle behind every great product

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 13, 2025
The Paradox of Automation

The Paradox of Automation

Speeding up chaos just makes it worse

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 12, 2025
Moving Back to the Middle

Moving Back to the Middle

Choosing family over funding rounds

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 11, 2025
Builders vs. The Managers

Builders vs. The Managers

the eternal tension inside every growing company

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 10, 2025
The Fault Line Between Business and Product/Tech

The Fault Line Between Business and Product/Tech

The productive conflict at the heart of every scaling startup

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 9, 2025
The Gravity of Consensus

The Gravity of Consensus

How group agreement drags teams toward mediocrity

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 8, 2025
The Quiet Power of Defaults

The Quiet Power of Defaults

And how unspoken rules actually govern companies

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 7, 2025
On Governments and Companies

On Governments and Companies

Maybe not so different

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 6, 2025
The Slow Lane of Childhood

The Slow Lane of Childhood

Why boredom is a feature, not a bug

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 5, 2025
The API Economy

The API Economy

How APIs turned startups into giants — and giants into fragile networks

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 4, 2025
The Half-Life of Software

The Half-Life of Software

Why every system decays faster than its builders expect

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Aug 3, 2025
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