Quest Layer ✦ Series
The Future of Enterprise Software May Be In the Quest Layer
At some point in this whole thought experiment, I realized I was no longer just talking about dashboards.
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Quest Layer ✦ Series
Post 6 of 5: How the Quest Layer Actually Works
Every good metaphor has to come down from the clouds and pass through an operating model. Otherwise we have not built an operating model. We have built a screensaver with ambitions.
Quest Layer ✦ Series
The Future of Enterprise Software May Be in the Quest Layer
We are no longer limited to the software categories vendors hand us. We can now build interfaces around the way our work actually works.
Quest Layer ✦ Series
The Flight Crews Need a Control Tower
AI that only helps us produce more artifacts has not solved the coordination problem. It has upgraded the fog machine.
Quest Layer ✦ Series
If We Need a Quest Guide, We Must Already Be on a Quest
How do you connect dashboards, evidence, decisions, and AI summaries into something usable for the people actually doing the work?
Leadership & Aliveness
I Don't Think We Need Smaller Lives Anymore
The Four Burners Theory says to turn one off. I think it was written for a different world.
Quest Layer ✦ Series
Enterprise Work Has Outgrown the Dashboard
A dashboard tells observers what happened. A quest guide helps operators decide what to do next.
Quest Layer ✦ Series
Corporate Work Is Already a Quest. We Just Keep Calling It Alignment.
Alignment answers whether we are facing the same mountain. A quest guide helps us climb it.
Automated Household ✦ Series
AI Loves a Pancake: Why Good AI Should Not Flatten Complex Work
Flat. Neat. Easy to consume. Missing several load-bearing ingredients.
Leadership & Aliveness ✦ Series
Margin Is the Metric for Useful AI
Speed without margin is just burnout with better tooling.
Leadership & Aliveness ✦ Series
AI Should Protect Aliveness, Not Just Increase Output
The point of AI is not to become a more efficient toaster.
Leadership & Aliveness ✦ Series
Heroics Are Usually a Design Problem
The late-night save is a signal: a broken system relying on one person's goodwill.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
AI Should Prepare Decisions, Not Replace Human Judgment
Most leaders are not lacking judgment. They are lacking clean inputs.
Governance & AI
The AI Moment Is Now — Are You Navigating It or Reacting to It?
The organizations that will thrive aren't the ones moving fastest. They're the ones moving wisest.