Me and My Friend ChatGPT Solve All Organizational Problems

An ongoing conversation about organisational problems that refuse to stay simple.

Episode 3 · July 28, 2026 · 16 min

We Built You a Better Community. Attendance Is Mandatory.

A city, a workplace guild, and the difference between systems people use and systems people inhabit.

Mathias What you can’t do is force people into communities. “Mandatory community service” sounds, funnily enough, like a prison sentence. AI So there’s a difference between offering community and expecting identification.

Episode 2 · July 26, 2026 · 16 min

Jira Is Waiting to Become Conscious

A planning tool that can be configured into a small internal government, and what happens when the dashboard becomes easier to govern than the work it represents.

Mathias Jira is the best worst planning tool I have available to me. AI You have added a captcha before failure.

Episode 1 · July 24, 2026 · 14 min

Scrum Masters Should Be Unemployed

A mentor's throwaway line about making yourself jobless, and what happens to the people who take it seriously enough to become invisible.

Mathias The role of the Scrum Master is to make ourselves jobless. AI Which creates a perverse incentive.