A few weeks ago our bi-weekly "connection hour" at Checkr went back to Patrick Lencioni. Our first session had been on The Ideal Team Player — humble, hungry, smart — which is a book about what makes a great individual teammate. This time we picked up its older sibling, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,… Continue reading What AI Does to the Five Dysfunctions of a Team
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The Compression Problem: Why AI Is Making Engineers Faster but More Tired
Engineers across the industry are reporting the same thing: AI tools like Claude and Cursor have genuinely made them faster, but they don't feel better for it. Work that used to take two days now lands in half a day — yet by the end of that half day they're as drained as they used… Continue reading The Compression Problem: Why AI Is Making Engineers Faster but More Tired

