What Ben Kuhn thinks about ambition

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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1. 19 Apr 2025

   Our readingPeople who can reliably make outcomes happen without oversight are rare and are the real bottleneck on how much an organization can take on at once.

   Their wordsPeople who can be trusted to make something inevitable are really rare, and are typically the bottleneck for how many different things a team or company can do at once.

   ↗Impact, agency, and tastebenkuhn.net 2nd of 3 in this piece