If you swapped out your AI tomorrow for a newer, smarter one, how much of your work would actually survive the switch? For most of us, the honest answer is: not much. We treat AI as a conversation. You open a chat, explain everything, get a useful answer, then start over the next day. The … Read more
AI has made the old transformation question sharper. If you run a mature company, do you keep repairing the legacy operating model or build an AI-native one beside it? For most incumbents, the answer is not either/or. It is a transformation and a twin. One model keeps the business reliable, compliant, and profitable. The other learns how … Read more
AI has a supply side and a demand side. Most conversations start and finish on supply: models, tools, agents, and platforms. But capability is only half the equation. What is the demand side of AI? This matters now because the spending is lopsided. Most budgets still pour into supply, mirroring the market’s heavy capex on … Read more
The most powerful frontier models in the world aren’t being held back by compute. They’re being stopped dead in their tracks by corporate accountants. And with good reason! This isn’t disruption. It’s revelation. AI didn’t break corporate finance; consumption pricing always meant this. We just couldn’t see it until the bill arrived. For thirty years, … Read more
In transformation programmes, efficiency gains are low hanging fruit. A dirty word within today’s glorious growth agenda. But what if efficiency IS a growth enabler. What then? Look, every time we get better at using something, we end up using more of it, not less. It’s what consumers do. James Watt made the steam engine … Read more
We are in a constant state of transformation: digital, operational, cultural, AI, brand. It is hitting everyone, everywhere, all at once. It is simultaneously exhilarating and exhausting. I’ve been a technologist for the majority of my career, moving from builder to architect to leader. I never really traded one hat for another; I simply kept … Read more
When we first dive into any athletic pursuit (be it running, cycling, or even a new fitness routine), we often start by playing around with three core variables: Early on, especially when we’re younger, we might focus heavily on intensity: short, explosive bursts that test our limits and give us quick feedback. Think about revision … Read more
One of the most pressing concerns with Generative AI (GenAI) today is the perceived lack of return on investment. Many organizations are struggling to translate AI hype into tangible value. But the problem isn’t with the technology, it’s with the readiness of the organizations attempting to adopt it. Most enterprises simply aren’t AI ready. Their … Read more
Dinner Talk & The Talent Crunch My wife and I had dinner last night with a Seattle‑based engineering couple.The husband was laid off in January; the wife voluntarily left her role soon after.Both landed new jobs—but only because they could prove they’d create value on Day One. The market is flooded with strong résumés; what companies … Read more
I really enjoyed Andrej Karpathy’s keynote at AI Startup School in San Francisco. As the former Director of AI at Tesla, Andrej is both smart and articulate. His talk got me thinking—again—about agentic modes of work, especially the idea of the agentic slider, which I’ll unpack here. We are shifting—slowly but surely—from the left column … Read more