Dan Barker finishes the book and lands on AI — 'If founders and early stage company leaders don't design the governance to match the technology, financial gravity will win'

Barker has been reading in public since September, first applying the book to his own development team and then finding the Leeroy Jenkins joke in chapter nine. This is the finished verdict, and it goes somewhere new: he reads the structural argument — values written into legal and operational governance rather than left to moral intention — against the economics of AI, where he expects the payoff from abandoning a mission to grow large enough that intentions will not hold. His conclusion is that governance has to be designed to match the technology.

“If founders and early stage company leaders don't design the governance to match the technology, financial gravity will win.” — Dan Barker on LinkedIn