#The Meantime

2 articles tagged with "The Meantime"

Building in Public

To Relax, I Built an App (My AI Chief of Staff Has Thoughts)

July 22, 2026

Last week, in the fifteen-minute breaks between actual work, I built an app. To relax. During launch week. My AI chief of staff had thoughts — and the line he drew ("Breaks are yours; the calendar is the launch's") turned out to be the whole story.

Productivity Culture

They Bought You AI, Then Switched It Off — and Now There's a Number for It

June 30, 2026

You asked the deployed tool to open the real file, and it couldn't. That wasn't your incompetence—it was the default. And now the default has numbers attached: 95% of enterprise AI pilots return nothing, and only 20–30% of paid Copilot seats get used in a given week.