The Post-Spreadsheet Business
4 articles · ~34 min total reading time
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The End of the Spreadsheet Era
For 47 years, business has been organized around the cell. AI ends that — not because spreadsheets got faster, but because computers can now make the judgment calls that were the only reason humans had to be in the loop at all.
8 min read
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You Don't Need a Computer to Run a Company
The PC, the OS, the inbox — scaffolding from when humans had to be the data movers. Your business is a flow now, not a desktop. The substrate moves the data; you do the deciding.
8 min read
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The New Org Chart: Who's Good at What
Three capability buckets — deterministic, judgment-with-context, human-only. Map every role to a bucket and your headcount plan changes shape.
8 min read
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SOPs That Run Themselves
Your SOP doc has been in Confluence for three years; two people have read it. The new SOP is a flow that runs itself and pages a human only at the judgment moments.
10 min read