Systems of Attention

6 posts

Future of Work

The Mission Defines the Workforce

For 170 years the unit of workforce planning was a person in a box. With humans, agents and robots sharing the same work, that unit becomes the "Mission": a bounded outcome with an owner, evidence, and one budget.

Steve Ambrose · September 2026

Future of Work

Three Conversations, One Missing Decision

Signal Labs CEO Rajeev Ronanki recently had three different interviews, sharing thoughts on hiring ledgers and customer service automation, as well as pilot zombie land. All rooted in company actions based on what AI takes away.

September 2026

Future of Work

The AI Rehiring Whipsaw Is a Measurement Problem

Many large employers are making "whipsaw" rehirings, in reaction to AI-related job cuts. This article explores the impact of measurement and valuable signals on improving the decisionmaking and outcomes in workforce decisions and management.

Rajeev Ronanki · August 2026

Future of Work

Tokenomics Is the Budget. Humanomics Is the Bound.

Tokenomics is what you can compute, and it scales on its own. Humanomics is deciding what is worth computing, and deciding what tasks remain actionable by humans.

Rajeev Ronanki · July 2026

AI agents

Systems of Attention: The Missing Layer Underneath the AI Agent Crisis

Microsoft restructured Build 2026 around it. Gartner named it agent sprawl. The security industry is drowning in it. The cognitive research has the numbers. Five witnesses to the same missing layer of enterprise software, and the vocabulary is finally catching up.

Steve Ambrose · May 2026

Systems of Attention

Systems of Attention: Inside the Launch of Signal Labs

You can feel it when something genuinely new walks into a room. Not a product. Not a feature. A whole new category.

May 2026