Tag: Artificial Intelligence
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2026 Career Matrix: Super-Specialization, General Management, and the AI Catalyst
Evaluate the shifting dynamic of the specialist vs generalist career path. This deep dive examines how AI in the workplace impacts talent management, employee retention, and L&D. Learn why tomorrow’s enterprise belongs to hyper-specialized executioners led by cross-functional, AI-fluent managers.
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The Question Nobody Funds
“Should we?” — two words, and the most expensive question in technology, because almost nobody is paid to ask it. The final essay in The Cost of Better on the question we quietly retired.
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There Is No Cloud
The cloud sounds like weather and runs like a foundry. The hidden environmental cost of AI data centres — in power, water, and the towns that pay the bill.
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The Graveyard of Sure Things
I have spent forty years watching technologies arrive announced as the destination — the place the whole industry was finally heading — and then, one by one, be revealed as detours. PowerBuilder. Sybase. Ruby on Rails. NoSQL. Blockchain. None of them failed, exactly. They were simply mistaken for the end of the road. A field…
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From Punch Cards to Claude Code
In 1978, I learned to code by hand-feeding punch cards into a machine. Today I describe my work in plain English and watch software write itself. Across that arc, an industry convinced itself the bill for progress had disappeared. It hadn’t — it never does. It only moves. The first essay in a series on…
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The Last Human in the Loop – The Most Reassuring Phrase in Modern Enterprise
It is 3:47am on a Sunday at a large bank. An autonomous adversary has been probing the bank’s third-party integrations for the past six minutes. By the time the bank’s autonomous defensive system has noticed, mapped the behaviour, decided it was malicious, and revoked the credentials, the entire interaction is over. The whole thing has…
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I Didn’t Upskill. I Eliminated The Team.
I built something in three days that should have taken a team a month. I didn’t upskill. I didn’t transition into a new role. I simply removed the need for the team. This is what that felt like — and what it means for the conversation we’ve been avoiding.
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Leaders & Followers — The Era of Artificial Intelligence
From Kings to Code: Leadership in the Age of Intelligent Power. That’s not a poetic flourish. It’s a warning. We’ve travelled from thrones and battlefields to boardrooms and bandwidth. Power once came from land, armies, and lineage. Today, it comes from data, algorithms, and the quiet hum of servers making decisions faster than any human…
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AI & the Workforce – The Illusion of Reskilling & The Coming Crisis
We stand at a crossroads in human history, one where artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from being a distant technological marvel to an omnipresent and omnipotent force reshaping the economic landscape, industries, the social and political landscape. The dawn of the AI era is a seismic shift and not merely a technological revolution.
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The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids
“The Tech Industry’s Psychological War on Kids” https://medium.com/s/story/the-tech-industrys-psychological-war-on-kids-c452870464ce
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