Doom & Gloom or Wine & Roses? The Spectrum of AI Predictions, and Ours
The people building AI cannot agree on whether it ends in paradise or extinction. Look closely, though, and they agree on something more useful, and more unsettling: how big the…

The people building AI cannot agree on whether it ends in paradise or extinction. Look closely, though, and they agree on something more useful, and more unsettling: how big the…
Most mid-market CEOs we talk to are still asking the wrong question about AI. They're asking how it will change their cost structure or which functions to automate first. The…
The panic response loses. The freeze response loses. Here's the disciplined third path - How to respond when your competitor just announced a major AI capability. Maybe it was a…
Every wave of technology gets defined by what it offers humanity. The printing press created mass literacy. The internet created global connectivity. AI, we are told, will create superhuman productivity,…
It is not mainly a story about jobs. It is a story about the price of thinking, the price of money, and the executives who will see the coming disruption…
In Homer's Odyssey, the Lotus-Eaters are a people "trapped" in a state of terminal, honey-sweet contentment. They weren't being tortured or oppressed; they were simply sedated into irrelevance. Once a…
Most mid-market technology transformations fail quietly. Not with a dramatic collapse, but with a slow fade — projects approved, consultants engaged, dashboards built, and three years later, leadership struggles to…
The "commoditization of certainty" is the defining economic reality of our time. Answers to nearly any question can be obtained in less than 60 seconds from a free website. For…
The 2026 AI Pivot: From "Magic Tricks" to Margin Impact If you are like most mid-market CEOs today, you are suffering from a specific, acute form of executive exhaustion: "AI…
Why "Counterfactual Reasoning" Separates Human Intelligence from Machine Intelligence Of all the capabilities that distinguish human intelligence from artificial systems, imagination may be the most important. It is the ability…