Your Cognitive Stack
AI-native companies ⓧ AI and the Web's design ⓧ Programmable organisations
👋 On time for your weekend: a round-up of this week’s remarkable stories at the intersection of technology, business, design, and culture. Three reads and three listens; no fluff, just stuff ⚡
There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening—Marshall McLuhan
📚 Reading
The Cognition Stack for AI-native Companies:
An “orchestration designer” is the evolution of a product leader and designer for the AI era […] Most importantly, orchestration designers have great taste. They will try creative things to unlock new edges in the market or attract attention through meaning and ingenuity […] They are the final mile of human selection and decision-making that will ultimately help differentiate the output of every company competing to win in every industry.
Scott Belsky—Implications | 12 minutes
Back to Text: How AI Might Reverse Web Design:
During the last 20 years, we’ve focused on improving websites for humans with complex design, single page apps, & complex Javascript […] But AI thrives on simplicity : pure text […] The better the AI performs, the fewer websites I’ll visit. What if the future of the web is exactly how it started : pure text websites? But text for robots, not text for humans.
Tomasz Tunguz | 1 minute
Will We See the First Programmable Organisations In 2025?
Organisations can be more automated and machine-like at the back-end platform level in order to be more human and connected at the front end. It will lead to an unbundling and re-bundling of 'jobs' and roles; many will no longer be needed, others will become more interesting and valued, and new roles and opportunities will emerge for those willing to engage with change.
Lee Bryant—Shift*Academy | 12 minutes
🎧 Listening
The Information Space in 2025:
The interesting thing about chat and A.I. is all of the infrastructure is there. You can just pump queries into it automatically. So when you start to see chat augmented with intelligent curation, then chat becomes feed. And when chat becomes feed […] if chat GPT becomes not just a chat box, but a place where they're doing some of the work for me, it becomes a really interesting media interface.
Troy Young—People vs Algorithms | 55 minutes
Elon Musk, X and Political Influence:
If you look at European censorship, it's not too far away from the political censorship you see in China […] I've observed this great divergence between the United States and other Anglosphere democracies. It changed my mind in favor of the explicit constitutional guarantee of the First Amendment […] I do think the US internet was kind of saved by the First Amendment. It gave us time for this change of corporate policies.
Samo Burja—Moment of Zen | 59 minutes
Making culture a habit:
Create a ritual of reflection, personally and together and reflect on the impact of your leadership, reflect on how well you're living out the values that you think are important, individual, organizational, fundamental values, and so on. And then having that ritual of reflection together as a executive team as well.
Tobias Sturesson—Lancefield on the Line | 41 minutes
💎 Timeless
1️⃣ year ago—It’s OK to call it Artificial Intelligence
2️⃣ years ago—LLMs and Information Post-Scarcity
3️⃣ years ago—Tech questions for 2022