Field Notes
Field notes on AI, execution, and where operations-heavy businesses can actually move the needle. Unfiltered, practical, and grounded in what’s working (and what isn’t) right now.
AI can move quickly. A business still needs to know what problem it is solving, who owns the work, and what a good result looks like before speed becomes useful.
When a team stops sharing the same office, leaders often discover that proximity was doing more of the operational work than anyone realized.
A 17-year scheduling process was trapped in one owner’s head. The breakthrough did not come from documenting it first. It came from giving her something she could react to.
Everyone’s worried AI is going to take their job. I think they’re looking at it wrong. Here’s what a front-row seat to the shift is showing me, and what it means for the businesses that adapt first.
If something here lands, let's figure out where AI and better execution can actually move the needle, what should stay human, and whether a paid strategy session is the right way to get useful direction quickly.