Organizational design

Sep 23, 2026

Replit CEO Amjad Masad on What Young People Should Learn in the AI Era

Replit founder Amjad Masad and HAA co-founder Gagan Biyani discuss the future of education in the AI era. They argue for fostering young people's natural inclination to question norms, advocating for project-based, curiosity-driven learning over traditional, prescriptive models. The conversation also explores the pitfalls of premature startup professionalization, the evolving nature of work with AI, and the critical importance of trust, discernment, and personal development in tech's high-stakes environment.

Sep 23, 2026

Thinking in Platforms • Kasper von Grünberg & Luca Galante • GOTO 2026

Kaspar von Grünberg and Luca Galante discuss their book "Thinking in Platforms," tracing platform engineering's origins from addressing key person dependencies to its critical role as an "operating model" for AI-first organizations. They highlight how AI agents necessitate standardized, productized internal platforms for effective deployment, emphasizing that platform efforts often fail due to social rather than technical challenges.

Sep 17, 2026

Databricks’ Ali Ghodsi Never Wanted to Be CEO. Now He’s Among the Best

Ali Ghodsi, CEO of Databricks, shares his unconventional rise to leadership, his unique CEO playbook centered on extreme focus on bottlenecks, and how he built Databricks' commercial engine. He details the strategy against Snowflake, the controversial creation of the Lakehouse category, and his views on conflict-averse leadership. Ghodsi also discusses AI's impact on enterprise and organizational design, offering insights from his personal coding experience and operating system.

Sep 16, 2026

If we want them to do Knowledge Work, design them as Knowledge Agents — Benjamin Clavié, Mixedbread

Benjamin Clavié argues that the industry has mistakenly generalized from the "easy case" of coding agents to the much harder domain of general knowledge work. He highlights that code offers durable, explicit cues and narrow tasks, while knowledge work involves implicit meaning, contextual understanding, and agents needing to reconstruct intent. Clavié traces human solutions through "tool loops" and "organization loops," demonstrating how optimized tools and hierarchical agentic structures (like searcher agents generating memos) are essential to overcome performance ceilings and significantly bridge the "oracle gap" between AI and human knowledge workers.

Aug 29, 2026

The Signal Layer: What to Build When Anything Can Be Built — Lena Hall, Akamai

Lena Hall explores the paradox of AI's abundance: while it grants immense leverage, it also makes average work valueless as competitors gain the same capabilities. She argues that AI, acting as a "convergence machine," produces identical answers from common knowledge. The true challenge shifts from building to "pointing"—deciding which problems are worth solving. Hall emphasizes that "taste" is trainable by AI, but genuine "judgment" about future events or unique customer relationships is not. She identifies critical points of signal distortion in startups and large organizations and advocates for engineering a "thin signal layer" to preserve unique intent. Ultimately, in a world of infinite alternatives, the scarcest and most valuable commodity is trust, which cannot be automated or graded.

Aug 19, 2026

Modern Enterprise Architecture: Architecting for Outcomes • Simon Rohrer • GOTO 2025

Simon Rohrer challenges traditional Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles, proposing a modern approach focused on outcomes, continuous evolution, and socio-technical alignment. He outlines five key tenets: Aligning Value, People & Technology; achieving Better Value Sooner, Safer, Happier; implementing Continuous Conversational & Automated Governance; scaling DevOps across the enterprise; and fostering Evolutionary Enterprise Architecture.