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Stop Chasing AI Tools

Stop Chasing AI Tools

The more 'up-to-date' you are, the more replaceable you become. Tool mastery is the wrong game.

Stop Chasing AI Tools

The more 'up-to-date' you are, the more replaceable you become. Tool mastery is the wrong game.

The Tragedy of the Agents

The Tragedy of the Agents

The Tragedy of the Agents maps eight stages from human improvisation to machine alienation. Understanding where you are determines whether you keep agency or lose it.

The Tragedy of the Agents

The Tragedy of the Agents maps eight stages from human improvisation to machine alienation. Understanding where you are determines whether you keep agency or lose it.

Why Viability Overrides Agility

Why Viability Overrides Agility

The agility versus viability comparison exposes a critical blind spot: agile methods optimize for short-term value, not long-term survival.

Why Viability Overrides Agility

The agility versus viability comparison exposes a critical blind spot: agile methods optimize for short-term value, not long-term survival.

Choose Your Tech Migration Strategy

Choose Your Tech Migration Strategy

Stop chasing every new tool. Stop feeling guilty about waiting. Learn where to sit on the technology migration spectrum.

Choose Your Tech Migration Strategy

Stop chasing every new tool. Stop feeling guilty about waiting. Learn where to sit on the technology migration spectrum.

AI Rewrites the Advisory Playbook

AI Rewrites the Advisory Playbook

As AI exposes big consulting's productivity theater, advisory boards and AI will reshape governance. Future advisors must offer judgment and stewardship, not AI-generated charts and slides.

AI Rewrites the Advisory Playbook

As AI exposes big consulting's productivity theater, advisory boards and AI will reshape governance. Future advisors must offer judgment and stewardship, not AI-generated charts and slides.

Clean Up Your Data

Clean Up Your Data

AI agents and workflow automations cannot help you create better experiences when your data is crap and all over the place.

Clean Up Your Data

AI agents and workflow automations cannot help you create better experiences when your data is crap and all over the place.

Jurgen Appelo

"Maintenance is how the universe curbs productive people."