AI’s Trojan Horse Moment: Muse, Dots, and the Stakes of Inviting Agentic AI Into the Keep
In late 2022, GenAI went mainstream and sent organizations and people scrambling to get their arms around the fundamentals of working with c...
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20 of 409 episodesRising Above AI Doomerism: Front-Line Tech Lessons on Career Resilience in the AI Age
Every headline you read right now claims software engineering is dead. In fact, many "futurists" predicted there would be no need for humans...
"The End is Near...So Let's 'Slow Down'?": What AI Resignations Reveal About Corporate Drift
AI safety researchers are walking away from millions in unvested equity to take a public stand against tech labs racing toward the apocalyps...
Are We Becoming Robots?: What the Research Actually Says (And How to Avoid It)
AI is apparently turning us all into robots. Algorithms are rewiring our brains, flattening human nature, and ending authentic selfhood as w...
The Compute Crisis: Sustainably Scaling AI to Avoid Infrastructure Collapse
As tech giants continue announcing massive multi-gigawatt facilities permitted to match the carbon output of entire nations, the default rea...
Avoiding the AI Speed Trap: Reclaiming Credibility, Quality, and Human Value in the AI Age
When blue chip institutions suffer high-profile quality failures, the immediate corporate reaction is often to point fingers at the underlyi...
Combating Claudefishing: The Solution to AI Slop Isn’t Measuring AI Involvement
When organizations or platforms encounter a quality crisis or an onslaught of unpopular noise, the default response is to rush toward compli...
2026 Mid-Year Reality Check: How's Our AI Hangover Recovery Progressing?
By all logic, one would assume entering 2026 meant executing a clean strategy for automation and growth. Unfortunately, trapped in a cycle o...
Choosing Value Over Efficiency: How IKEA Leveraged AI to Turn $15M of Savings into $1.5B in Revenue
By all logic, one would assume we’d treat AI as a strategic enabler to expand business capacity. Unfortunately, trapped in a lazy efficiency...
(Special Episode) AI Agent Sprawl, Lost Agency, & Rethinking Resistance with Travis Hahler
I'm excited to push out a special episode of the podcast. Normally, I don’t publish my live video sessions to this audio feed, but my conver...
Stopping the Agent Sprawl: Why Cranking The Dial on Autonomy is Financial and Operational Suicide
Unmet generative AI promises, flatlining ROI dashboards, and a relentless corporate appetite for unguided technological progress. By all log...
The Rise of Tokenmaxxing: Analog Organizational Risks Just Got an Expensive AI Upgrade
Massive enterprise investments, utilization dashboards, and organizational mandates present a masterclass in modern digital transformation....
Vibe-Coded Catastrophes: Accelerating Intimacy in Digital Apps is Your Security Nightmare
Slick interfaces, instant productivity, and AI platforms that look and feel like they were built by software giants. By all logic, one would...
Fortifying Organizational Fragility (Part 3): Business Physics and the Frictionless Fallacy
Last week, my son and I stumbled across a "financial guru" on YouTube making an "interesting" claim: if you make $1M over 20 years , you've...
Fortifying Organizational Fragility (Part 2): Mercenary Talent and the Rise of Cognitive Atrophy
Recently, Deloitte and Zoom announced they are slashing parental leave, PTO, and pension accruals. At the same time, Meta and Zuckerberg are...
Fortifying Organizational Fragility (Part 1): Rented Infrastructure and the Dashboard Delusion
Last Monday, a ChatGPT outage caused a ripple of chaos that most people wrote off as a minor inconvenience. However, while many were struggl...
Paper Mache Business: The Medvi Disaster Highlights the Danger of Scaling an AI Façade
Did you hear about the guy and his brother that built a $1.8 billion healthcare company from their couch thanks to AI? On the surface, it lo...
Typewriter Intervention: The Brilliance of Analog Innovation in an Over-Automated World
Anyone remember Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing? Yeah, well, this week you’ll need to go back even further than that. An Ivy League professor re...
Amplified Visions of Grandeur: What Stanford’s AI Psychosis Research Actually Means for Leaders
Stanford dropped a new study focused on AI causing "delusional spirals.” As you can imagine, it spun up sci-fi panic. And hey, there’s some...
The “Rogue AI” Mirage: Meta’s “Sev 1” Emergency Highlights Your Greatest AI Risk
When a "rogue AI agent" triggered a Sev-1 emergency at Meta, the media immediately started spinning up Terminator scenarios. However, what a...