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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
AI Is a Five-Layer Cake. Pick the Slice That Keeps Paying.
Energy, chips, systems, models, applications. Every layer matters. Only one pays compounding returns. A framework for picking yours.
29 Apr11 min read
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Industry & MarketsDeep dive
Agents Are the Heaviest SaaS Users You'll Ever Onboard
Every useful agent becomes a power user of the SaaS underneath it. Install base explodes, API calls multiply, workflow gets more essential, not less.
27 Apr10 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
I Try to Jailbreak Every AI Chat I Use. Most of Them Let Me.
Six production chat surfaces, a habit of breaking every AI chat in the wild, and the defence-in-depth stack that keeps your prompts contained.
24 Apr16 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
Every Team Has a Barrel Problem. AI Just Exposed It.
Keith Rabois' barrels vs. ammunition framework reframes what AI changes about teams. More ammunition without more barrels solves the wrong problem.
22 Apr8 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
You'll Get the AI Org Design Wrong Twice
Most enterprise AI teams centralise first, then decentralise. Both fail. Here's the hub-and-spoke structure that actually works.
20 Apr6 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
Enterprise AI Adoption Fails at the Harness, Not the Model
90%+ enterprise AI tool access, most people stuck in chat. The rollout bottleneck isn't the model. It's the harness. Here's the product fix.
17 Apr6 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
The Right Friction Converts Better Than None
Product teams reflexively strip onboarding friction. Intentional friction that helps users understand why the product is for them increases conversion.
15 Apr10 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
AI Adoption Metrics Are Broken. Watch Your CMO.
The top AI user in high-performing companies isn't engineering — it's the CMO. Here's why that's the real signal for whether AI adoption has reached the decision layer.
13 Apr7 min read
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AI Strategy & LeadershipDeep dive
Leave Money on the Table. It Grows Back.
The best AI growth teams deliberately sacrifice short-term metrics. Restraint on pricing, error handling, and safety compounds into retention and trust.
10 Apr10 min read
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AI Product BuildingDeep dive
You Can't Vibe Code Your Way to SAP
Enterprise software encodes decades of domain knowledge across every architectural layer. Vibe coding can't shortcut what took thousands of people 25 years to accumulate.
8 Apr10 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
Micro-Optimisation Is a Trap When Your Market Is Exponential
Growth teams trained in linear markets spend 70% on small experiments. In exponential markets, that allocation captures a rounding error.
6 Apr9 min read
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AI Strategy & Leadership
AI Multiplied Your Engineers. Your PMs Are Drowning.
AI coding tools tripled engineering output overnight. PM and design headcount stayed flat. The ratio broke, and most orgs haven't noticed yet.
3 Apr9 min read
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