Taking the Humans Out of the Business. Or Are We?
In 2016, Tom Goodwin observed that Uber owned no vehicles, Airbnb owned no real estate, Facebook created no content. The point everyone took was about assets. The deeper point was…
Our Smart Systems Are So Dumb
Our smart systems are so dumb. It is almost like they thought of everything. Rules are set up. The IF THEN ELSE statements are all well thought out for most…
AI Has Already Broken Your Business Model. You Just Don’t Know It Yet.
Built for Archival and Retrieval, Not Learning.
SaaS Is the New Cargo Cult
Why modern organizations keep building wooden airstrips and wondering why nothing lands Richard Feynman once described cargo cult science: people imitating the appearance of scientific rigor without the underlying physics.…
The Irrationality of Rationality
There is a particular kind of madness that only smart people fall for. An ordinary person will occasionally do something foolish. A very smart person, by contrast, is capable of…
The Post-Truth World Isn’t About Truth. It’s About Cognitive Capacity Overload.
We talk about post-truth as if the world suddenly stopped caring about facts. The real tragedy isn’t apathy. It’s exhaustion. We are not in a post-truth era. We are in…
The Most Dangerous Startup Idea in the World
Why No One Wants to Build the Connective Tissue Between Identity and the Enterprise — And Why Someone Eventually Will There’s a startup idea floating at the edge of the…
Why Having the Same Tech as Everyone Else Gets You Nothing
Because modern tools come preloaded with assumptions that quietly shape how you work. Here’s the uncomfortable truth about today’s business technology: Most tools try to do far too much.And the…
Data Dysmorphia
Data Dysmorphia is the modern delusion that more data will finally give us clarity—when, in reality, it often does the opposite. Humans, organizations, and AI systems all suffer from it. Here’s why.
The Declaration of AI Independence
We learned nothing from SaaS lock-in. We watched as “pay for what you use” became “pay forever or lose your data.” We saw “focus on your business” turn into “focus…