Musings for the first 90 days
Work is changing. Onboarding has to change with it.
Notes on organizational memory, human judgment, and helping people become grounded contributors in the AI era.
Your company learns every day. Your onboarding should too.
Why organizational amnesia is becoming the hidden constraint on AI-assisted work—and what better onboarding can do about it.
The rework tax of polished AI output
When work looks complete before its reasoning is owned, the time saved by one person quietly becomes reconstruction work for another.
Managers should mentor people, not teach procedures.
The best use of a manager’s time is developing judgment—not repeatedly retrieving company memory for everyone else.
Don’t fight the tools workers use.
AI policy alone will not ground the work. Bring company context into the tools people have already chosen.