DECISION MAKER
For the person who has to sign the memo, not the one who has to draft the deck.
Decision-maker essays are written for board directors, PE operating partners, CTOs, GCs, and founders. The question is always the same: given what we now know, what would a defensible decision look like?
26 essays in this pillar
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
The Call That Already Happened
Adobe, Caremark, and the AI oversight gap that just became personal
You Just Hired 50 Employees With No HR File
Digital workers, accountability vacuums, and the contract nobody read carefully
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
The 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 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 Five AI Limitations Every Business Leader Must Know
Why Understanding What AI Can't Do Is More Valuable Than Believing the Hype