The Lab
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.
When Your Best People Depend on You Less, What Should Organizations Do? — Part II
Organizational Change7 min readRead →
Careers Used to Be a Ladder. Now They’re Becoming a Portfolio. Why? — Part I
Workforce Transformation7 min readRead →
Companies Are Letting Experienced People Go. AI Companies Are Buying Their Expertise to Train Better Models.
Workforce Transformation3 min readRead →
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 →
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 →
Attention Pollution: When Addiction Becomes a Business Model, Who Pays the Price?
Governance and Regulation6 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 →
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 →
GPU 是会融化的资本:AI 与 1840 年的铁路狂热
中文特辑1 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 →
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 →
Token 出海：一场穿越三套监管体系的 AI 贸易
中文特辑1 min readRead →
Your career runs on two kinds of assets. Only one is truly yours
Workforce Transformation3 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 →
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 →
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 →