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The Steady Beat - Issue 25.05.5
AI is making us dumber, empathy is making us smarter, async works if it’s cultural, big teams stall out, and moving fast requires steady leadership.

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.05.4
Communicate so it counts, delegate to agents not copilots, trust but verify your LLM, don’t fire your architect yet, and run an AI sprint before you scale.

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.05.3
AI is not for the middling, tech is everywhere (all at once), time served is not progress made, team-first business, and emotionally healthy orgs make more m...

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.05.2
Automate your brag doc, the PM AI balance, great managers are not always liked, and the case for boring engineering.

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.05.1
The double coordination tax, humans in the loop, vibe officing, AI in the enterprise, and a desktop app from Steady.

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.04.4
AI as a way to cut cross-team chaos, don't be a "cool" manager, a peak inside distributed work at Spotify, and the power of goal updates on a cadence.

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.04.3
AI mandates, delegating paranoia to AI, teams are missing out, and doubling-down on human judgement.

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.04.2
Creative leadership, corporate Heisenberg, AI that just works, and maybe your manager isn't such a jerk after all.

The Steady Beat - Issue 25.04.1
Special issue: a round up of the latest survey findings on the state of modern work, the state of teamwork, and the state of software development tech.
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