Mistakes to Avoid

Wharton's Ethan Mollick on Managing AI Agents Without Giving Up Your Own Thinking
Wharton's Ethan Mollick on four skills for using AI, cognitive surrender, managing agents like a team and why taste still matters. Our summary of the interview.
Nov 5, 2026 · 8 min

Google Research's Yossi Matias on the Kind of Thinker Who Will Thrive in the AI Era
Google Research VP Yossi Matias on AI labs for every scientist, ambient intelligence, soft skills and thinking like an organization of one. Our summary.
Nov 4, 2026 · 6 min

Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on How One Person Plus AI Agents Could Build a $1 Trillion Company
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on trust as the moat, agents as customers, deleting agent-hostile tools and a one-person trillion-dollar company. Our summary.
Nov 4, 2026 · 7 min

Ethan Evans on Making Another VP Realize Their Mistake Without Saying It: Influence Without Insulting
Former Amazon VP Ethan Evans on getting another VP to see their mistake without saying so, the Twitch story, and what directors are judged on.
Nov 3, 2026 · 4 min

"Many Leaders Have No Vision About AI": Harvard's Linda Hill on the CEO Skills That Matter Now
Harvard's Linda Hill on leading through AI without a vision, AI risk appetite, decision rights, over-managed and under-led companies, and the limits of authority.
Nov 2, 2026 · 8 min

"The Team Should Not Be 10 People Anymore": Revolut's Nik Storonsky on AI Teams of Two, No Pass-Through Managers and a $115B Bank
Revolut CEO Nik Storonsky on AI teams of two or three, 90% automated support, removing relay-only managers, 50 direct reports and building a $115B bank.
Nov 2, 2026 · 9 min

Why Every Company Now Needs a Labs Team: Google Labs' Josh Woodward on Finding Ideas, Killing Projects and Building Fast
Google Labs head Josh Woodward on finding ideas, the almost possible list, spotting product-market fit, killing projects and setting up a lab that lasts.
Oct 29, 2026 · 9 min

Alexandr Wang Has More Than 200 Direct Reports: Inside Muse, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta's Anti-Bureaucracy AI Lab
Meta's Chief AI Officer on building Muse in 7 months, working with Mark Zuckerberg, leaving Scale AI and leading 200+ direct reports. Key quotes and takeaways.
Oct 28, 2026 · 8 min

Sam Altman on AI Consciousness, Self-Improving AI and New Hardware: What Business Leaders Should Take Away
Key takeaways from Sam Altman's interview with Matthew Berman on self-improving AI, consciousness, new hardware and compute, and what they mean for business.
Oct 27, 2026 · 4 min

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy on Reinventing Amazon for the AI Era: What Small Businesses Can Learn
Key takeaways from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's interview on AI demand, data center limits, smaller teams, security and human judgment, and what to do about them.
Oct 26, 2026 · 6 min
