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Jack Dorsey published something recently that most people ignored.
A long essay about how Block (his company) is rethinking the entire structure of how a company works.
And when I say rethinking, I don't mean "let's go remote" or "let's use AI chatbots." I mean rethinking why companies even have middle managers in the first place.
His argument is simple.
Middle managers exist because humans can only manage about 3 to 8 people at a time. That's a biological limit. So to coordinate thousands of employees, you stack layers. Manager reports to director. Director reports to VP. VP reports to C-suite.
Every layer exists to move information up and down.
Dorsey says AI can do that now. So why keep the layers?
Is it a fair question?
Why This Matters Beyond Block
Here's where I want to go deeper than Dorsey did.
Forget org charts for a second. Think about what a CEO actually does every day.
They run simulations in their head. Constantly.
"What happens if I cut prices in this market?" "If I approve this repair, what does the next year look like?" "If I hire 10 more people, does revenue follow?"
Every business decision is a guess. An educated guess, but still a guess.
Now think about how we solved this exact problem for self-driving cars.
Waymo didn't just put cars on the road and pray. They built a simulated world. A digital copy of the real environment. They ran millions of "what if" scenarios before the car ever touched a real street.
We've never done that for business.
We have dashboards. We have analytics tools. We have AI agents writing emails and updating CRMs. But none of these can answer the most basic question a CEO asks every morning: "If I do X, what happens to my business?"
That's the real idea here. Not killing managers. Building a simulation of your entire company.
What Would That Even Look Like?
Let me give you an example.
Say you run a company with 15 locations across a region. Each one uses different software. Different accounting tools. Different CRM. Different customer service systems.
None of them talk to each other.
Your district managers run on spreadsheets. Updated manually. Your executives get monthly reports as a PDF.
Now imagine an AI that connects to all of it. Every system. Every data point. Every transaction.
