AI x Business
17 essays, 2023–2026, newest first.
- Shadow AI Is the Strategy Your employees are already telling you where AI creates value.
- The 1% Error That Ruins Everything Why AI agents are mathematically doomed - and what to build instead
- Believe the Checkbook AI companies talk as if engineering is over. Their acquisitions say the opposite.
- The Most Expensive Wall in Software What happens when you stop protecting engineers from customers?
- The Breaker Box Economy Why AI's future belongs to whoever controls the compute grid
- The Experience Upload Surface mastery downloads in seconds. Judgment still takes years.
- The Server in the Closet The case for owning your stack
- Tools Create Capacity, Workflows Create Value The physics of organizational change that everyone ignores.
- The Age of Citation AI engines don’t care about rank - they care about corroboration. If you’re not in the synthesis, you’re invisible.
- Win the Default, Win the Decade The products that shape behavior aren’t the loudest... they’re the ones already chosen.
- Mise en Place for AI Teams Small tools, sharp edges, fast teams.
- AI Belongs in Your Dev Pipeline, Not Your Product Why the companies winning with AI aren't the ones with chatbots—they're the ones shipping twice as fast
- Why Your Enterprise AI Strategy Is Failing and it's not about the technology...
- The Human Side of AI: Giving People Back Their Time In 1927, Henry Ford made a revolutionary decision to transition his workforce to a five-day workweek. The reason wasn't just altruism - he discovered that...
- When Products Think For Themselves As products gain agency, we enter a new partnership - one that challenges our notions of trust, ethics, and innovation.
- AI Rule #1 - Customer First In 1985, Warren Buffett wisely said, "The first rule of investment is don't lose. And the second rule of investment is don't forget the first rule, and...
- Artist for a Day The future of creative output is multiplied by AI.