Archive - Work Reorganized by Stijn Zanders

The agent is the easy part

What I learned cutting our data model complexity in half by building a harness

Aug 11 • Stijn Zanders

When the floor rises, the boundaries move

What I look for in people now

Aug 7 • Stijn Zanders

June 2026

The trap of being useful

You don’t stop being the bottleneck. You just move it

Jun 27 • Stijn Zanders

May 2026

“Use AI” is not a strategy

There are two finance books on my desk.

May 4 • Stijn Zanders

April 2026

The company we documented is not the company we run

The model told me how our billing system worked. The system it described wasn't fully live yet.

Apr 28 • Stijn Zanders

The five-second gut check

Everyone's automating the work. Nobody's designing the five seconds where a human actually decides.

Apr 26 • Stijn Zanders

Letting go is how you keep up

When execution stops being the job, holding on makes you slower.

Apr 24 • Stijn Zanders

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