The Inaugural Series · April 2026

Compounding.

Two essays. Approximately thirty minutes each. A complete framework for thinking about productivity in the era of abundant intelligence.

Why "Compounding"

The name comes from a simple observation

Productivity gains do not happen in isolation. The way an individual manages their attention compounds into how a team produces ideas. The way a team collaborates compounds into how an organisation makes decisions. The way an organisation is structured compounds into how it adapts to technological change.

These are not separate problems. They are layers of the same problem, and they multiply.

When you get all three layers right, the gains are extraordinary. When even one layer is broken, it drags down the others. Compounding is about understanding how all of this fits together — and what AI is doing to the entire stack.

The Two Essays

Read in order

The managers who thrive will be those who understand their job is no longer to produce — but to create the conditions under which others, augmented by abundant intelligence, produce their best work.

— from Episode Two, MacSays
Also from MacSays

Series Two — Structured Thinking

The second MacSays series picks up exactly where Compounding ends. If Compounding argues that the manager's job in the AI era is to create the conditions under which others produce their best work, Structured Thinking is about the discipline that lets you do that thinking yourself — before, around, and after the machine.

Read Series Two — Structured Thinking →