Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)

I'm working on a new theory of management. I was explaining leadership to someone and they said I should write a book about it. In the same week I was explaining another aspect and got the same response. I think management has been overcomplicated by people trying to codify it. I think MBAs and systems like EOS try to dumb everyone down to inhuman lowest-common-denominator robots. That is the main cause of the productivity crisis.

That's why people leave their jobs, and magically find they are 100% more productive without a boss. No BS, and they are inspired.

I think you could get further faster by being a human, being inspiring, being a leader. I think you could learn more from Nelson than whatever nasty dehumanising theory most bosses have been reading.

I'm struggling to find the motivation to write up my notes (neurodiversity both helping me see the problem and stopping me do anything about it). I'm struggling to name the theory. I am struggling ( with some limited success) in noticing what I do differently. I'm also struggling with recovering from a major burnout from succeeding creating highly motivated teams in really tough organisations.

I thought all along that I would be better with a collaborator watching me and noting the differences between what I do and what everyone else is doing, then interviewing me about it.

Maybe I could publish bits of it, little tidbits of blogs (who would find them?) or social media videos (I really don't want to have to record and edit videos). Not sure how to get progress.

Looks nice! How does the email ingestion work?

Please don't use "bank level security" claims if you're not SOC 2 Type II compliant and don't have PKI based cryptography to secure your documents.

Thank you for building this! I've contributed to a couple products in the past and love the concept.

A website/blog mostly targeted towards Gen Z that will have technical guides for censorship evasion, privacy/anonymity guides, archiving/hacking/pirating/hosting resources combined with an art index with thousands of indie blogs and links to zines, magazines, music streaming, and DIY craft learning sites.

It will have personal articles about contemporary tech topics such as escaping algorithms, anti AI art, electronica/raves blogging, and the intersection between tech and art. It'll have Y2K/liminal/surreal/computer aesthetics and appear as an early 2000s blog.

It's very time consuming but I'm ecstatic building it all from scratch.