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Is my problem developmental or merely hard?
Solvable vs unsolvable problems
Feb 18 • Varun Godbole
Why is this decision so hard?
From Heroism to Authenticity
Feb 7 • Varun Godbole

January 2026

Why can't they hear you?
Selling diagnoses before prescriptions
Jan 29 • Varun Godbole
Managing a talented but stressful report
Shifting from over-care to care
Jan 27 • Varun Godbole
Managing AI overwhelm
Moving from scarcity to abundance
Jan 20 • Varun Godbole
Why is changing a company's culture hard?
The interpretation gap between what leaders intend and what employees experience.
Jan 6 • Varun Godbole and Dan Hunt

December 2025

The Assumption Gap
Why LLMs produce slop and how to close the distance
Dec 28, 2025 • Varun Godbole and Dan Hunt
Psychological Development as the Capacity for Nebulosity
What skills and tenure can’t explain
Dec 26, 2025 • Varun Godbole and Dan Hunt
Over-Control and Under-Control
When teams can't sit with nebulosity
Dec 16, 2025 • Varun Godbole and Dan Hunt
Creating Value with AI is Uncomfortable
And it’s a very reasonable reaction to a profound shift
Dec 15, 2025 • Varun Godbole and Dan Hunt
What is an AI-first agent?
And what will happen to the world when they arrive?
Dec 9, 2025 • Varun Godbole and Dan Hunt
Making Claude Code More AI-First
This post laid out three criteria to help determine how AI-first a product is.
Dec 3, 2025 • Varun Godbole
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