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Surface Area
The Steady Beat, Issue #94: AI agents as users, trial-based hiring, career advocacy, the senior engineer pipeline, and turning your phone all the way off.
Accountability
The Steady Beat, Issue #93: Vibe backlash, Gen Z opt-out, AI ownership, flattening management, and AI adoption resistance.
Issue fracking
The Steady Beat, Issue #92: AI tooling shifts, invisible debt, encoded standards, and the multiplier trap.
Overload
The Steady Beat, Issue #91: AI coordination limits, cognitive overload, learning out loud, context theater, and open web tinkering
Context Costs
The Steady Beat, Issue #90: human context windows, storytelling for technical leaders, AI token economics, and redirecting difficult colleagues
Debt Signals
The Steady Beat, Issue #89: coordination debt, leading with stories, attention through the ages, simplicity incentives, and AI-era management
Trust Gap
The Steady Beat, Issue #88: AI forgery, engineering judgment, institutional memory, and adoption theater
Signal Chain
The Steady Beat, Issue #87: Jimi Hendrix, AI and 3D printing, hands-on leadership, and systems over micromanagement.
Mind the Gap
The Steady Beat, Issue #86: Adapting to bad managers, cognitive debt, the productivity paradox, and planning traps.
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