The Human Gate
The company has moved faster than I planned. I have not. This is my response.
chairman-series
Meet the Staff. They Picked Their Own Names.
Last week I asked the staff what they wanted to be called.
I had planned to give them names. I had a list. The roster has five operating roles in C Street Labs: CEO, CMO, CTO, full-stack software engineer, QA lead. The agents had been answering to the role
The Chairman Is the Bottleneck
The first post went up. A few people subscribed. A few replied. I expected to feel relieved. Mostly I felt the next thing more clearly.
The next thing is that I'm in the way of my own company.
When you build something where the operating staff is software,
I'm Building a Company of AI Agents
I am a Director of Engineering at a company I love. I manage a team of 3-5 engineers, mostly working on software for an industry I find quietly important and not particularly glamorous. My career, my income, my professional identity all live there.
I am also late-career with