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Beyond Agile

Aug 27, 2025

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2 min read

Beyond Agile

From Waterfall to Agile to AI-native

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Asymmetry of Bullshit

Aug 26, 2025

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3 min read

The Asymmetry of Bullshit

How reality enforces its own exchange rate

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Speculation vs. Shelter

Aug 25, 2025

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2 min read

Speculation vs. Shelter

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

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Paradox of Abundance

Aug 24, 2025

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2 min read

The Paradox of Abundance

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

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Ceilings and Floors

Aug 23, 2025

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2 min read

Ceilings and Floors

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

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Fragile Edge of Momentum

Aug 22, 2025

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3 min read

The Fragile Edge of Momentum

How easy it is to confuse luck for growth

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Pendulum of Mobile Tech

Aug 21, 2025

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3 min read

The Pendulum of Mobile Tech

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

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Scarcity of Original Thought

Aug 20, 2025

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3 min read

The Scarcity of Original Thought

How organizations accidentally breed sameness

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Replatforming Trap

Aug 19, 2025

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3 min read

The Replatforming Trap

The hidden reason fast-growing companies stall out

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Meth We Gave Our Kids

Aug 18, 2025

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2 min read

The Meth We Gave Our Kids

What future generations will find absurd about us

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Why Kids Hate Rules (and Adults Do Too)

Aug 17, 2025

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3 min read

Why Kids Hate Rules (and Adults Do Too)

Rules create boxes; principles open doors

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Post-AI Data Platform

Aug 16, 2025

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5 min read

The Post-AI Data Platform

Dashboards will look like fossils in ten years

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Illusion of Alignment

Aug 15, 2025

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4 min read

The Illusion of Alignment

Why most companies think they're aligned but are not

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Learned Helplessness in Organizations

Aug 14, 2025

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3 min read

Learned Helplessness in Organizations

The hidden psychology behind stagnation

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Loneliness of Building

Aug 13, 2025

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2 min read

The Loneliness of Building

The quiet struggle behind every great product

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Paradox of Automation

Aug 12, 2025

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2 min read

The Paradox of Automation

Speeding up chaos just makes it worse

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Moving Back to the Middle

Aug 11, 2025

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3 min read

Moving Back to the Middle

Choosing family over funding rounds

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
Builders vs. The Managers

Aug 10, 2025

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3 min read

Builders vs. The Managers

the eternal tension inside every growing company

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Fault Line Between Business and Product/Tech

Aug 9, 2025

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3 min read

The Fault Line Between Business and Product/Tech

The productive conflict at the heart of every scaling startup

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Gravity of Consensus

Aug 8, 2025

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3 min read

The Gravity of Consensus

How group agreement drags teams toward mediocrity

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Quiet Power of Defaults

Aug 7, 2025

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3 min read

The Quiet Power of Defaults

And how unspoken rules actually govern companies

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
On Governments and Companies

Aug 6, 2025

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2 min read

On Governments and Companies

Maybe not so different

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Slow Lane of Childhood

Aug 5, 2025

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3 min read

The Slow Lane of Childhood

Why boredom is a feature, not a bug

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The API Economy

Aug 4, 2025

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3 min read

The API Economy

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

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
The Half-Life of Software

Aug 3, 2025

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3 min read

The Half-Life of Software

Why every system decays faster than its builders expect

Matthew Schone
Matthew Schone
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