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A return to two-pizza culture
The two-pizza idea was never really about team size. It was about ownership. Small teams understood the customer problem, owned the product end to end and could make reversible decisions without navigating layers of permission. As organisations grow, dependencies multiply, approval cycles expand and coordination begins to replace action.
AI changes the equation again. When a working prototype can be built in an evening, the operating rhythm becomes: Build. Use. Learn. Improve. Then document what the evidence tells you. But faster technology will not fix a slow culture. Without autonomy, AI merely helps organisations produce bureaucracy faster.
This is the difference between haphazard and deliberate leadership.
- https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/06/return-to-two-pizza-culture.html
The leadership question
Where has coordination and control replaced genuine ownership in your organisation?
Choose one important customer problem. Give a small, capable team end-to-end ownership, direct access to users and permission to make decisions.
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Everything is Recorded Now
The system of record today is structured data: CRM entries, tickets, docs. But the highest-value context lives in conversation: the nuance on a customer call, the real argument in a product review, the offhand comment in a leadership meeting that quietly changes the roadmap. LLMs are uniquely good at taking that unstructured voice data and making it structured, searchable, and queryable
https://www.a16z.news/p/everything-is-recorded-now
The secret of human intelligence may lie in the power of a single brain cell
For many years, the prevailing view was that the secret of human intelligence lay mainly in scale: the sheer number of neurons in the human brain—close to 100 billion—and the vast network of connections among them. But a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences suggests that part of the answer may lie at a much smaller scale: in the extraordinary computational power of individual brain cells.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-07-secret-human-intelligence-power-brain.html
This Synthetic Cell Grows, Copies Its DNA, and Produces Offspring—But It Isn’t Alive
Researchers, have assembled a synthetic cell out of engineered, non-living components housed inside an artificial, cell-like membrane.
Chief sustainability officers’ new pitch to CEOs: climate action isn’t about morals—it’s about money
When asked, every CEO I talk to says that climate change is real. They acknowledge the need to address the societal and climate impacts of AI, draw on diverse pools of talent, build resilient supply chains, pay attractive wages and seek a higher purpose than just generating profits.
https://fortune.com/2026/07/09/chief-sustainability-officer-ceos-pitch-climate-action-morals-money/
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