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I’ve walked into AI “transformation” meetings where the plan on the wall looked like a case study in how to burn money. A seven-figure budget, a shiny new model, and not one question about whether the work itself should even exist. When that happens, I don’t nod politely. I stop the room, grab a marker,…
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If you listen to the headlines, we’re marching toward a robot takeover. The narrative is neat and dramatic: machines in, people out. But that’s a lazy conclusion. The real story is less about replacement and more about a shift in how value gets created. AI isn’t a threat to human contribution—it’s a catalyst for changing…
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Walk into any tech conference today and you’ll hear the phrase “I’m in AI” tossed around like free swag. For one person, it means training a custom large language model. For another, it’s dropping ChatGPT prompts into email marketing. Both are “in AI,” but the gap between those two realities is a canyon. That canyon…
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The $6.5B Story Everyone Got Wrong When OpenAI spent $6.5 billion to acquire Jony Ive’s hardware design team, the headlines focused on gadgets. Would we see an AI phone? A headset? The next iPod? That’s not the story. The real play is much bigger—and much less obvious. This isn’t about hardware. It’s about fixing AI’s…
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Most automation projects don’t fail with a bang — they fade into irrelevance. The bots get built, the dashboards light up, and everyone claps in the pilot review. Six months later, the same workarounds are back, the automation is broken, and the only thing “scaled” is the list of abandoned scripts no one maintains. Here’s…
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You can tell a lot about a company’s AI readiness by how they answer one question: “When the system fails, who takes the call from the CEO?” Most can’t. They’ll gesture vaguely at “the team,” or worse, at “the vendor.” But AI isn’t a vendor you can fire. It’s a capability woven into your business.…
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(Spoiler: Not if you implement it right) A few months ago, headlines lit up with an MIT study claiming ChatGPT reduces brain activity by 55% and creates “cognitive debt.” The clickbait takeaway: AI is rotting our brains. AI skeptics rejoiced. Leaders braced for another “tech is killing us” debate. I dug into the research. What…
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Most AI initiatives fail. Not because the technology is flawed, but because the thinking is. Companies are spending billions to strap a jet engine to a horse-drawn carriage, automating processes that should have been retired years ago. They are optimizing for a past that no longer exists, creating fantastically efficient versions of the wrong things.…
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A staggering 80% of AI projects fail to deliver any real value. They stall in labs, get rejected by users, or, worse, get deployed and make things catastrophically worse. We blame the tech, the data, or the talent. But the real reason is simpler and much harder to fix. We are trying to bolt a…
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Your CEO just called. “Integrate AI.” You’ve got pilots in flight, governance half-built, and the clock is running. The hard part isn’t picking a model or vendor — it’s making sure AI doesn’t hard-code your worst habits and call it progress. That’s what AI First Principles are for. They are the values and core tenets that…
