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Why is changing a company's culture hard?
The interpretation gap between what leaders intend and what employees experience.
Jan 6
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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December 2025
The Assumption Gap
Why LLMs produce slop and how to close the distance
Dec 28, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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Psychological Development as the Capacity for Nebulosity
What skills and tenure can’t explain
Dec 26, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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Over-Control and Under-Control
When teams can't sit with nebulosity
Dec 16, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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Creating Value with AI is Uncomfortable
And it’s a very reasonable reaction to a profound shift
Dec 15, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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What is an AI-first agent?
And what will happen to the world when they arrive?
Dec 9, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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Making Claude Code More AI-First
This post laid out three criteria to help determine how AI-first a product is.
Dec 3, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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What is an AI-first product?
A friend and I were deep in editing one of my essays.
Dec 1, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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September 2025
The AI That Feels Good Wins
The public's lukewarm response to GPT-5 fascinates me more than the model itself.
Sep 4, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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July 2025
What is an AI-first software company?
Deterministic-native software organizations have been struggling to generate substantial enterprise value using GenAI.
Jul 30, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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Dan Hunt
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June 2025
On AI Therapists and Cognitive Prosthetics
I was catching up with a friend the other day who mentioned she'd been using ChatGPT for therapy.
Jun 11, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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May 2025
Following the thread of LLM evals
A consistent thread since I left Google has been people asking for help with creating value with LLMs in their products.
May 13, 2025
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Varun Godbole
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