Organizations

Organizational ecology has spent decades documenting how industries are born, shake out, and consolidate — and the AI industry is following the script, with a few structural twists worth naming.

A course on how companies actually live and die made it impossible to sell the fiction that managers control the outcome — and quietly redirected a career.

Cycles are getting shorter everywhere — in careers, in technology, in how organizations work. A decades-old Marine Corps doctrine saw it first, and its insights about coordination under pressure feel uncomfortably relevant to building software with AI.