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The Growing Knowledge Base
This is a growing knowledge base, not a collection of finished answers. Each piece builds on the last, and every question opens the door to the next.
AI Is Making Everything Faster. I Chose to Slow Down.
Workforce Transformation6 min readRead →
How Do We Actually Decide Whether a Company Is a Global AI Leader?
Organizational Change9 min readRead →
Why I Attend Fewer AI Events Than I Used To
Workforce Transformation4 min readRead →
# When You Realize the World Is Far Less Put Together Than It Looks, Be a Little Braver
Workforce Transformation10 min readRead →
# Why Is the World Racing to Build Humanoid Robots When So Many People Still Can't Find Jobs?
AI Trends7 min readRead →
Why Most Companies Using AI Still Aren't AI-Native Organizations
Organizational Change7 min readRead →
# Where Will Value Re-Concentrate as General-Purpose AI Models Become Infrastructure?
AI Trends13 min readRead →
Attention Pollution: When Addiction Becomes a Business Model, Who Pays the Price?
Governance and Regulation6 min readRead →
The Big Tech Syndrome in China and the U.S.: Top Talent Leaves, Ordinary Employees Burn Out, and AI Is Exposing the Cracks in Organizational Design
Organizational Change8 min readRead →
What Are World Models? What Are Big Tech Companies Building—and Where Are They Getting Stuck?
AI Trends2 min readRead →
Why Robot Companies Are Suddenly "Scrambling for Grain": The Data War in Embodied AI Is Not What You Think
Organizational Change6 min readRead →
AI 为什么开始需要"身体"？从具身智能的几座大山说起
中文特辑1 min readRead →
Why AI Now Needs a "Body": Embodied AI and Its Big Roadblocks
AI Trends6 min readRead →
Are You Training the AI You Use?
Workforce Transformation2 min readRead →
From SEO to GEO: In the AI Traffic Wars, Who's Selling the Shovels?
AI Economics3 min readRead →
算力紧约束下的Kimi K3：开源之后，谁能真正跑起来？
中文特辑1 min readRead →
Your resume is being read by AI. It was probably written by AI too. So who's actually being evaluated?
Workforce Transformation3 min readRead →
When Models Converge, What Will Organizations Compete On?
Organizational Change3 min readRead →
AI Boss Clones Are Becoming the New Workplace Advantage
Workforce Transformation3 min readRead →
FDE Is Booming. But Is It Scalable
Organizational Change2 min readRead →
AI Engineer: Why Is Every Company Hiring Them?
One role at a time. Understand what it is, who it’s for, and how to break in
AI Job Decoded3 min readRead →
Forward Deployed Engineer
Each episode breaks down one emerging AI-era role. Understand what it is, who it’s for, and how to break into it.
AI Job Decoded2 min readRead →
"Does my AI subscription cover the model's training costs?"
AI Economics3 min readRead →
In AI trade, what exactly is being regulated?
AI Economics3 min readRead →
Why would anyone give away an AI model that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to train?
AI Economics3 min readRead →
Open-Source AI: You Get the Dish, Not the Recipe
AI Economics3 min readRead →
What's Actually Scarce in the "AI Compute Shortage"?
AI Economics3 min readRead →
For the first time in history, intelligence can be mass-produced.
AI Economics3 min readRead →
越便宜, 越短缺 --- 杰文斯悖论与算力的未来
AI Economics1 min readRead →
AI Workforce Transformation Lead
One role at a time. Understand what it is, who it fits, and how to enter
AI Job Decoded2 min readRead →
为什么东南亚成为算力新战场
AI Economics1 min readRead →
You're not behind: 60% of companies haven't made a single dollar from AI.
Workforce Transformation3 min readRead →
The Transformation Paradox: Why "Feeling Safe" Is Actually the Warning Sign
Organizational Change3 min readRead →
Using AI Doesn't Make You AI Native
Workforce Transformation3 min readRead →
What AI Leaderboards Really Taught Me: How to Judge Models
AI Literacy3 min readRead →
Stop Looking for the "Best" AI Model
Workforce Transformation3 min readRead →
为什么英伟达吃肉,租算力的喝汤都烫嘴
中文特辑1 min readRead →
AI Product Manager
Each episode breaks down one emerging AI-era role. Understand what it is, who it’s for, and how to break into it.
AI Job Decoded3 min readRead →
韩国存储股过山车背后的算力经济学
中文特辑1 min readRead →
From Prompts to a Personal AI Capability Stack
Workforce Transformation2 min readRead →
Your career runs on two kinds of assets. Only one is truly yours
Workforce Transformation3 min readRead →
Token 出海：一场穿越三套监管体系的 AI 贸易
中文特辑1 min readRead →
GPU 是会融化的资本:AI 与 1840 年的铁路狂热
中文特辑1 min readRead →
AI Agent Builder
One role at a time: what it does, who it fits, and how to enter.
AI Job Decoded3 min readRead →
AI Operations Manager.
Each post breaks down one emerging AI role: what it is, who it suits, and how to move into it.
AI Job Decoded2 min readRead →
AI Workflow Designer
One role at a time. Understand what it is, who it fits, and how to enter.
AI Job Decoded2 min readRead →
AI Artist Engineer
One role at a time. Understand what it is, who it fits, and how to enter
AI Job Decoded2 min readRead →
Same AI, Why Can Prices Differ by 100x?
AI Economics2 min readRead →
AI Keeps Getting Cheaper — How?
AI Economics2 min readRead →
Parameters, Training, Inference: Three Words That Explain AI's Cost Structure
AI Economics3 min readRead →
Distillation and Open Source: How AI Capabilities "Leak" Downmarket
AI Economics2 min readRead →
AI Solutions Architect
Each episode breaks down one emerging AI-era role. Understand what it is, who it’s for, and how to break into it.
AI Job Decoded2 min readRead →
Stop Identifying AI-Era Super Individuals Only by Performance Rankings
Organizational Change3 min readRead →
How to Build a Super Organization with Super Individuals
Organizational Change3 min readRead →
AI Governance Manager
One role at a time. Understand what it is, who it fits, and how to enter.
AI Job Decoded2 min readRead →
HR Isn't Disappearing in the AI Era — It's Being Repriced
AI Job Decoded2 min readRead →
The AI Era's Survival Question
Workforce Transformation2 min readRead →
When AI Agrees, Be Careful
Workforce Transformation2 min readRead →
Stop Creating AI Waste.
Organizational Change3 min readRead →
Where AI belongs, and where human judgment has to stay.
Organizational Change2 min readRead →
Stop playing AI police.
Organizational Change1 min readRead →
Your employees didn't become parrots because of AI. Your evaluation system did.
Organizational Change1 min readRead →
Are We Romanticizing the One-Person Company?
Organizational Change2 min readRead →