Jurgen Appelo
@jurgenappelo
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Redesigning the future of work—no hype, no hierarchies, no hegemonies. https://t.co/qAu15E272H
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Joined March 2008
Will AI Really Doom Us? 3 Hard Facts That Say ‘Don’t Panic’.
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Finished reading. Brilliant insights on information networks, full of fascinating stories and historical anecdotes.
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"In the year 2025, nearly 100% of business professionals at a business meeting anecdotally just admitted they don’t read often. Or at all. That means, the information they do get typically comes from online sources.". What Happens When No One Reads—and Everyone Asks AI Instead?.
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The persistence of human jobs isn't optimistic thinking—it's economic and psychological reality. But the transition will be painful.
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With AI stealing jobs, we need to prepare for the Great Automation Event.
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The future of work with AI isn’t just automation—it’s a full-blown identity crisis. 22 conundrums that’ll make your head spin (and your team rethink everything).
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The Critical Questions AI Leadership Must Face as AI Reshapes Work, Power, and Purpose. There's a Lot to Do for the Networked Organizations of the Future.
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Strategic planners often forget that every step changes the map. The Most Dangerous Enemy of Your Strategy? Your Own Innovation.
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Fish swim side-to-side. Dolphins swim up-and-down. Useless knowledge? Maybe. But in the age of AI, knowing “useless” things might be the most human skill left.
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In the age of AI, what’s the point of learning anything? There are no knowledge workers in the future or work. The knowledge of the entire world is readily available at our fingertips.
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Everyone wants to automate “mindless” work. Not me. I need stupid, repetitive tasks—they’re therapy for my overworked brain. Sometimes dumb work is smart.
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No one can do meaningful, intellectually demanding work every waking second. Sometimes, our brain cells demand boredom. In the age of AI, we need to cleanse our minds.
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Your Kanban board might be lying to you. AI workflows are turning from pipelines into spaghetti monsters. It’s time we rethink how we visualize and manage work.
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Why Linear Workflow Visualization Is Doomed in an AI-Driven World. AI Management and Leadership Must Recognize Nonlinearity.
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“Oh look, another agile guy pretending to be an AI expert.” 🙄.No. I’m just doing what Agile told us: adapt, evolve, respond to change.
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Agile is meant to navigate uncertainty—the Age of AI will separate the winners from the losers. Love it or hate it, the future of work is with AI, not without.
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AI agents still suck at the messy, nuanced human experience.
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AI Agents Suck at Handling the Human Experience. So Much for Agentic AI (for now).
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Nobody at work cares about your frameworks. They’re already drowning in noise. They just want clear answers: ✔️ Why should I care? ✔️ What’s in it for me? ✔️ How do I proceed?.
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Forget about showing complicated models. AI leadership is about answering the questions, "Why should I care?" "What's in it for me?" and "How do I proceed?"
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Most Substack guides? Boring. Ours? 11 sections, zero fluff, full fire.
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Everything I Wish I Knew Before Launching on Substack. (Any gig worker preparing for the future of work on Substack will love this.)
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AI’s either going to kill us or save us—or so the loudest pundits say. Me? I argue with everyone from the inconvenient middle ground.
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The thing about being a radical centrist is that you get into twice as many fights as everyone else. AI leadership about taking the middle road.
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I’ve started more ventures than vacations. Some soared. Most tanked. Every one taught me something.
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Many Ventures, a Few Hits, One Slightly Bruised Ego. Entering the Age of AI and the Future of Work with Plenty of Battle Scars.
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I'm not quitting Substack and I refuse to use Grok. I'm also not ditching WhatsApp, Amazon, Google, or any of the other supposedly evil platforms.
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How to Change Yourself (and Others): Change Management 101
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AI fluency might be the new literacy test for leadership. But AI fanaticism is a shortcut to oblivion.
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A CEO, a Memo, and the Sound of Screaming Creatives. (Agentic leadership is more than just rushing forward into the future of work.)
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AI outputs aren’t hallucinations. They’re performances. Confident, convincing, and sometimes dead wrong.
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How to Use AIs with a Critical Mind … Six Techniques for Skeptics. (Surviving as a gig worker in the age of AI.)
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Everyone’s hyping autonomous AI agents. But AI keeps making the world more unpredictable. Autonomy needs AGI—and we’re not there.
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So, when are we going to get true agentic AI? The paradox is that AI increases uncertainty, which breaks autonomous AI agents.
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