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Jim Highsmith

Jim Highsmith

American software engineer and author

Aug 23, 2026

36:35
Mm
36:36
... at least to a major extent, and that process management, which we've spent the last 40 or 50 years as managers optimizing, is gonna reduce in terms of its importance.
36:48
And things like how you make decisions and what decisions you allow AI to make and what decisions you save for humans is gonna be a, a really important piece of how you go about managing.
37:00
So I've talked about this idea of judgment-oriented management as opposed to process-oriented management, and we're gonna have to make that shift.
37:08
It's not that the process management's gonna go away, but a shift in emphasis to decision-making and judgment.
37:15
And I define capability, so I, uh, judgment capability is not a function.
37:21
I started saying a function, but it is an emergent property of knowledge, experience, and particularly decision, I mean, consequence bearing decisions and judgment.

15 MINS LATER

52:39
Mm.
24:38
Oh, thank
24:39
you.
24:39
The second one was Robot Proof by Adrienne Ming.
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She calls herself the mad scientist.
24:48
And she's a neuroscientist.
24:51
and has delved into AI for 15 or 20 years, had various startups.
24:59
And she really talks a lot in that book about how do you build the creative minds that we'll need for the future, as opposed to the non-creative minds.

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As you said, as Jerry said, 25 years ago, remember, it's a people problem.

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