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FUTUREMINDED

FutureMinded explores how organizations must redesign work, labor, and decision-making as AI becomes foundational infrastructure.

Newsletter · By Dirk Shaw · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 30, 2026

    Before You Automate the Work, Question It. (opens the original)

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    The opportunity sounds clear. Improve the customer experience. Increase the team’s capacity. Make better use of what the organization knows. A pilot demonstrates something promising, and there is enough confidence to move forward. But what, exactly, has been agreed?What responsibility will the system take on? Which information can it rely on? What happens when that information changes? Where does someone need to intervene? Who owns the result when the work crosses several teams?These questions s

  2. Issue · Sep 25, 2026

    When an Organization Starts to Remember (opens the original)

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    A conversation today started with a document marked “active” that an AI system was treating as unresolved.The people involved understood the distinction: the policy was active, but a downstream approval was still required. The system appeared to be interpreting the language differently.We started talking about the document. Then knowledge bases. Then memory. Eventually, we were discussing what a “memory manager” might actually be.That’s the part I kept thinking about afterward.As a system accumu

  3. Issue · Sep 21, 2026

    What Kind of Agent Platform Are You Buying? (opens the original)

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    “Agent platform” can describe the infrastructure that runs an agent, the software that coordinates its work, or the application an employee uses to give it a task.That is a wide range of products under one label.It helps explain why comparisons get confusing. Two vendors can both promise to help a company build and run agents while supplying very different parts of the system.To understand what you are buying, start with the layers.Here is how I separate the main functions:<a class="image-link i

  4. Issue · Sep 18, 2026

    Scale the Craft (opens the original)

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    The leap from “AI can do this task” to “we need fewer people” deserves much more scrutiny than it gets.Over the last couple of years, I’ve been designing and building AI systems for research, creative work, marketing, and organizational planning. They compress work, reduce repetition, and remove constraints on what a team can take on. Across those explorations, the opportunity I keep seeing is increased capacity.The narrow replacement story assumes the assignment stays the same: produce yesterda

  5. Issue · Aug 19, 2026

    What Your AI Workflows Are Actually Worth (opens the original)

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    Your team uses AI. Your board wants proof it delivers value. You cannot answer in workflow terms, dollar terms, or compounding capability.This is structural. Enterprises deploy AI without infrastructure to classify what each workflow is worth, where value leaks, and what closing the gap costs operationally.OpenAI Economic Research explains why. Alex Martin Richmond’s The AI Jobs Transition Framework (April 2026) identifies a capability overhang across every job category exposed to

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