Software Psychology
Bjorn Freeman-Benson

Posts from 2026

Profession

The great AI overthrow of the old-school way of writing software into the new way of managing fleets of agents just brings back so many memories of the Issac Asimov novella “Profession” – the key point of the story is that people are given direct-to-brain knowledge, but of just one technology and so when the technology changed, those who understood the older technology became obsolete – nobody had learned how to learn something new.

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Lao Tzu Quote

A friend pointed out this Lao Tzu quote today that perfectly describes my leadership philosophy:

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Starting Again

I wrote a blog back in the last millennium, but then I stopped for many years. I tried restarting it a number of times, but didn’t find my voice in amongst the cacophony on the internet so the efforts withered away. However now I’m working on a number of new ideas and I’m feeling the urge to have a public persona again and so here it is.

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