There's no such thing as an AI-ready culture: what exists instead (and is better) Members Public

Picture it: licenses purchased, course completed, policy signed. "We're ready for AI now," you say. And the next week a new model comes out that makes half of what you prepared obsolete.

Jonathan Canales
Strategy and decisions
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Your AI tool changes plans: migration is more than a new logo Members Public

Google stopped selling new Gemini Code Assist subscriptions. Not an immediate shutdown: a commercial change each organization should translate into its own calendar before choosing a replacement.

Jonathan Canales
Technology and tools
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Your team uses AI and isn't telling you: how to make it safe to say so Members Public

Picture your best analyst delivering in half the time. You ask how, and the answer is "I just organize myself well." Maybe that's true. Or maybe they use an AI tool nobody else knows about, and they don't say so because they don't know what would happen if they did.

Jonathan Canales
Leadership and teams
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A Productive Week Doesn't Feel Busy Members Public

Friday afternoon arrives and the week was intense: meetings, emails, calls, requests handled. And yet, when you close the laptop, an uncomfortable question remains: what actually moved forward?

Jonathan Canales
Productivity and operations
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How to Think Several Steps Ahead: 6 Mental Models for Better Decisions Members Public

There is a difference between reacting and deciding. Reacting means answering whatever is in front of you. Deciding means asking what happens after that, and after that. Six mental models for thinking several steps ahead: a simple list I found handy for clearing my head.

Jonathan Canales
Strategy and decisions
What are operations and why being a good operator accelerates your career

What are operations and why being a good operator accelerates your career Members Public

There's a person in your company whose absence is felt immediately. When they're on vacation, deliveries slip, questions go unanswered, and small problems turn into meetings. When they return, order quietly comes back, and nobody can quite explain what they did.

Jonathan Canales
Productivity and operations
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Files you need for vibe coding: give your AI context and order Members Public

Tell an AI "build me an app" and nothing else, and it does what any new hire with no briefing would do: it guesses. Sometimes it guesses well. More often it guesses fast and with great confidence, which is worse. The fix is not a longer prompt.

Jonathan Canales
Technology and tools
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What is vibe coding, how to do it right and who it is for Members Public

"Vibe coding" sounds like a TikTok trend, but it has a date and an author. In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy (OpenAI cofounder and former head of AI at Tesla) posted on X that he had found "a new kind of coding" where you fully give in to the vibes, accept whatever the AI…

Jonathan Canales
Technology and tools