We talk a lot about excellence. Expertise. Mastery. High performance. But here's a truth we rarely celebrate: to build something great, you must first be willing to be truly, unapologetically bad at it.

I am currently changing how I approach my work. Not the products, the code, or the outcomes, but the invisible layer—the planning, structuring, and decision-making. I realized: most of us are running on habit, not design. So I have set out to build and orchestrate 30 agents. Single agents, some multiagent systems, some automated and some human initiated. They will be designed to upgrade how I and perhaps others in my team operate. I am stepping straight into unfamiliar territory. I am going to fail. I am going to feel lost, and I currently am, I'll look inexperienced.

But that's not weakness. That's the process towards excellence, expertise, and mastery. Athletes and toddlers get it: stumbling, failing, falling flat on your face are necessary steps on the way to mastery.

From Productivity to Systems Thinking

Improvement used to mean working faster. Now, it means seeing work as a system, recognizing friction and patterns. Most "busy work" is repeatable cognitive effort—stuff that can be designed and supported by agents. For engineers, this is familiar territory; for many of us, it's new, and it can feel awkward. But that's how learning works.

Pattern Recognition as Leadership

Seeing the same problems over and over? Recognizing problems in my day to day tasks. That's not failure—it's a signal. With new AI tools, we all can finally design around those signals regardless of background and knowledge.

Meet the Agents

So to act on this myself, my current target is to have min 30 work agents, and the work has begun. Here are some of them:

The Friday Draft Agent

Turns rough notes and half-baked ideas into structured drafts. That's fine. It's not about perfection—it's about momentum. It gives me a draft that I can rework in word. Great starting point! Still refining the output to reduce the manual work needed after.

The Project Planner Agent

From contracts, email conversations and specifications to delivery plans and milestones. Spits out project plans that saves me time and manual frustrations.

The Chief of Staff Agent

Keeps track of my initiatives and priorities, asking hard questions. It's a thinking partner. This one is stumbling — I might need to break it down to be more specific on tasks. I am learning. And failing here.

What This Is Really About: Process Optimization

The way of working demands a new way of mapping out and structuring recurring work, finding the weak spots, redesigning flow—it's not smooth at first. You'll get things wrong. That's the road to mastery. Not to forget to learn how to use, ship and build with the new tools like Copilot Agent builder, Copilot Studio, struggling with access rights and figuring out that you can not do everything you hoped to. It is just hard different and new.

Sharpening the Skillset

Raising the bar means making mistakes, asking questions, and accepting that sometimes you'll look like a beginner. Embracing that discomfort drives growth.

What I'm Building Toward

Thirty agents may sound ambitious. However, when you start to break down leadership and operational work, you'll find at least thirty repeatable tasks—each a chance to fail, learn, and improve.

Why This Matters for the Future

We've optimized the technical; now it's time to optimize cognition. The advantage comes not from waiting on the sidelines, but from jumping in, failing, and learning. Don't wait for perfection. Start now. The agents are just the infrastructure. The real win is embracing the messy process that leads to mastery.