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Digital Transformation

Analysis of how technology is fundamentally changing industries, business models, and work processes, and strategies for navigating these shifts.

6ac53d311a6b1b06a8395dbb 2026-10-06

Your Checking Account Runs on Friction

Your checking account pays almost nothing, and you leave money there anyway because moving it is a hassle. AI agents that handle the hassle could change how households manage cash, and bank stocks already flinched. It's a preview of how today's AI changes everyday life without getting any smarter.

6a3d57ef6ad51f06f489e36c 2026-06-25

Stop reviewing the development plan

When software gets easier to produce, the useful review moves upstream to the problem and downstream to the build system. The polished plan in the middle matters less than it used to.

6a049814f78e5b4c9406b785 2026-05-13

Jobs Are Fake

Your org chart still assumes marketing handles these things, engineering handles those. That mapping is from before. The lanes were always capacity, not rules. That capacity has come off, and the org charts haven't caught up.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753c2 2026-02-28

Your Team Has the Tools. But Nothing Has Changed.

Smart, accomplished leaders are quietly paralyzed by AI. They feel the pressure. They see the opportunity. They can't translate it into forward motion. I help them see the destination and get there.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753be 2025-12-30

There Is No Spoon

Everyone's worried AI will hurt junior workers. But there's hope. They haven't been institutionalized into how things 'should' work. Like that elephant bound by a string, we're limited by what we believe we can do, not what we're capable of.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753b4 2025-06-11

How to Move Your Team from AI Fear to AI Fluency

An 8-step framework to transform your team from AI-anxious to AI-fluent. This "Crawl, Walk, Run" approach addresses both technology and culture, turning individual AI wins into organizational competitive advantage.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753b3 2025-06-05

How AI Changes What's Possible, Not Just What's Faster

AI isn't just making existing processes faster—it's enabling organizations to adopt capabilities they could never afford before. This creates leapfrog advantages for players previously locked out by resource constraints.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d753b1 2025-05-01

Permission and Purpose: AI Adoption Is Cultural Change, Not Just Technical Integration

AI adoption isn’t about tools. It’s about culture. The orgs that win are the ones where leadership models the behavior, systems support learning, and teams have permission to experiment and purpose to point the way. Move early. Move with care.

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d7538c 2025-02-11

Stop Chasing AI. Start Reimagining WITH It.

AI is fundamentally changing how we solve problems by forcing us back to first principles. The rapid advancement of AI capabilities isn't just changing what's technically possible - it's reshaping how users think about solutions themselves. Where we once accepted complex workflows and technical limitations

69e8c6b8c9e3630642d75396 2024-09-20

This meeting WILL also be an email

There is a popular meme that this meeting should have been an email. Why wasn't it an email? Because people frequently convey information in a way that is most comfortable and convenient for the conveyor. Current LLMs now provide unprecedented versatility in tailoring the form of a message