I write about complexity, flow and adaptive action at work, and make toys for thinking about teams.
I'm Ahmed Avais, an engineering leader who spent a decade coaching engineering and product leaders, sometimes across more than 200 teams at once. For more than 25 years I've been learning how systems behave, from machines to teams to teams working with AI. More about me.
- machinesnetworks, infrastructure
- teamsXP, coaching, HSD
- teams + AIspecs, harness, safety net
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Retire, sustain or grow
A federal agency had to decide the future of more than 40 financial-education products. My team went past the brief, pairing AI similarity scoring across 70 sites with real usage data, so every recommendation came with evidence.
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Trust has neighbors
Teams copy what works nearby, even habits nobody remembers choosing. A grid of players shows how trust spreads, one neighbor at a time.
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