Disruption is the word everyone reaches for. I’m not a fan. Open any strategy deck and it is there. AI will disrupt your industry. Disrupt your workflows. Disrupt everything. The word is everywhere because it feels true. Something big is happening, and disruption is how we have learned to name big things. But look at … Read more
The capability is real. AI can write, summarize, research, code, classify, compare, draft, and decide faster than any team could have imagined a year ago. So the disappointment feels strange: the tools are better, the output is larger, the demos are stronger, the spend is real. And yet, for many teams, the productivity gain still … Read more
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
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
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
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
AI is reshaping the digital workforce and our relationship with work. They are interconnected. We are witnessing and experiencing a significant upheaval in both the nature of work and the composition of the workforce. Not knowing what or how you’ll work a year from now injects fear, uncertainty, and doubt into the system. However, consider … Read more