Essays
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2026
17 essaysAccess Is Not Property
The week Claude Fable and Mythos went dark showed that frontier AI has moved from product to permission. The architecture implications will take years to work through.
The Title Is Arriving. The Authority Isn't.
Most companies are about to hire a Head of AI Governance. The one detail that determines whether the role works is being decided right now, before the job description is even posted.
The Permission Problem
The latest moat in AI is power. And the fix for this isn't coming from any single capital or any single state.
The Gigawatt Era
AI's new unit of measurement: what one is, what 220 of them by 2030 actually means, and the gap between how often the word gets used and how rarely it gets explained
Announced Is Not Energized
AI's capex cycle is entering the part that gets judged on economics, not press releases
20,000 Chips
The Cerebras IPO, the architectural shift beneath it, and the milestones I will be watching
The Call That Already Happened
Adobe, Caremark, and the AI oversight gap that just became personal
The Bill You Didn't Authorize
Usage-based pricing, runaway spend, and the financial control gap nobody priced in
You Just Hired 50 Employees With No HR File
Digital workers, accountability vacuums, and the contract nobody read carefully
The Software Under Your iPhone Just Got Hacked by an AI
AI-discovered vulnerabilities, autonomous exploits, and the assumption nobody questioned until now
The Audit That Isn't Ready
Why your compliance function can't govern what it wasn't built to evaluate
Ship Faster. Ship Safer.
Enterprise governance for AI coding assistants—from the person who's been warning you about the gap
"Human in the Loop" Is Not a Control
Automation bias, rubber-stamping, and the most dangerous assumption in AI governance
The Code You Didn't Authorize
Shadow tools, agentic risk, and the governance gap in AI-assisted development
The Assistant That Can Act
When your AI agent holds the keys
The Kill Switch
Recovery, containment, authority
When AI Becomes a Board Issue
2025
18 essaysThe Question Nobody Wants to Ask in 2026
Why Do 80% of AI Projects Fail?
And here's how to fix it in 90 days
The Middle Manager Paradox
The Ancient Algorithm: When 5,000-Year-Old Wisdom Meets New Age AI
Building Through the AI Bubble
The Gen Z AI Trap
How the Most Connected Generation Became the Least Prepared
The Reskilling Myth: Why Top Firms Are Choosing AI Over Retraining
When Accenture spends $865M to replace workers, Salesforce cuts 4,000 jobs overnight, and IBM eliminates 8,000 HR positions, we are witnessing the end of the reskill everyone fantasy
The Switzerland Strategy: How to Profit from AI Without Building AI
The AI Gold Rush: Who's Actually Getting Rich
The Coding Agent Revolution: Why History is Repeating Itself (And That's a Good Thing)
We're Becoming Smarter and Dumber at the Same Time
My take on what's happening to our brains in the age of AI, and how we can navigate it wisely
The Five AI Limitations Every Business Leader Must Know
Why Understanding What AI Can't Do Is More Valuable Than Believing the Hype
The $2.3 Million AI Mistake (And How to Avoid It)
Beyond the Paycheck: How Agentic AI Is Transforming Total Rewards
Beyond Hybrid Work: The Era of Human-AI Teams
Rethinking Clinical Documentation with AI
The AI Revolution in HR: Transforming Talent Management and Employee Experience
The integration of artificial intelligence in human resources is reshaping how organizations attract, develop, and retain talent. From streamlined onboarding to personalized employee experiences, AI is revolutionizing the workplace of tomorrow.