Feb 13, 2026 - 7 minute read

Multitasking Feels Productive. Your Brain Disagrees.

You’ve felt it. Three Slack threads, two PRs under review, a doc half-written, and a meeting in eleven minutes. Everything moving forward. Momentum everywhere. Your brain is humming. Except it’s not. The neuroscience is unambiguous: what feels like productivity is actually your brain cycling between tasks so fast it mistakes the switching for progress. You are busy. You are not doing your best work.

Feb 12, 2026 - 6 minute read

You Just Spent 45 Minutes Doing Your AI's Job

You know the feeling. Your AI agent asks a question it should already know the answer to. So you open your database, run a query, copy the results, paste them into the chat, explain the schema, correct its misunderstanding, re-run it. Forty-five minutes gone. You were supposed to be making decisions today. Instead, you were a human API — copying data between systems because your AI couldn’t reach the shelf. This is the most expensive mistake in AI adoption right now, and almost everyone is making it.

Feb 11, 2026 - 5 minute read

Your AI Should Disagree With You

Every major AI assistant on the market today has the same flaw: it thinks you’re a genius. Tell it a terrible business idea, and it responds with “What a brilliant insight!” Give it a strategy riddled with holes, and you’ll hear “That’s a fascinating approach.” Ask it to evaluate your half-baked plan to disrupt an industry you know nothing about, and it will offer enthusiastic refinements instead of the honest pushback your idea desperately needs.

Feb 9, 2026 - 7 minute read

Every Agent Memory Architecture Fails Differently

I’ve been running multi-agent teams for months now. Agents writing code, generating images, managing deployments, drafting content, reviewing each other’s work. It’s the most productive workflow I’ve found — and the most fragile. Not because the models are bad or the tools are missing. The thing that keeps breaking is memory. How do agents remember what matters across conversations, across tools, and across each other? I’ve tried four different approaches. Each one solved one problem and created two more.