Leadership
AI is your apprentice (almost)
2026-08-24
Antonín Král
𝔸 new contract lands in your inbox. Twenty-two pages, two attachments, a reference to a standard you have never seen. You open your agent, upload the PDF into it and write: go through the contract, …
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Čeněk and HCP
2025-10-15
Antonín Král
𝕀t was a murky autumn morning. Čeněk, lost in his thoughts, looked out the window at the slopes rising steeply from the river. He put down the book he was just reading. On the cover, in large red …
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Aristotle's Political Systems
2025-07-30
Antonín Král
𝔸ristotle external link doesn’t need an introduction, as well as his views on political systems external link . He sees three true constitutions (royalty, aristocracy, and polity) …
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Written Narratives
2025-07-24
Antonín Král
𝕀 have started replying to some emails with “send me the prompt, please.” The problem is not that they used an LLM. The thing is that they skipped the thinking.
LLMs did not invent this. …
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Procrastination -- beyond the To-Do list
2025-06-20
Antonín Král
ℙrocrastination is often misunderstood as merely poor time management or laziness, but research increasingly shows it’s primarily an issue of emotional regulation, not time management1. …
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Strategy and vision
2025-04-28
Antonín Král
𝕎hen the organization grew1 beyond about 60 people, it felt different. We have agreed that a new management layer (between myself and tech-leads) is needed. But, I’ve started to lose a grip on …
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Who should decide?
2025-03-06
Antonín Král
𝕀’ve come to like the saying “don’t ask for permission, ask for forgiveness”1. It reflects the reality that most decisions don’t need approval, and waiting for blessing …
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The Power of Written Standup
2021-03-08
Antonín Král
𝕎ritten standup is a simple tool that can significantly improve how distributed teams work. It’s just what it sounds like: instead of meeting to talk, team members write down what they’re …
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Work Principles
Antonín Král
𝕋his page used to be called “Work Values” in the past, but started to grow beyond values, and actually listing more “how”1. Also, unfortunately, word “value” became …
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