You're the bottleneck again: what an army of AI agents waiting on you means for your business
Anthropic found its AI agents spent 80% of session time waiting on a human. Your attention is now the bottleneck. Here's how to make agents need less.
No. 02
BusinessOctober 24, 2026
When AI dissolves your moat: the IBM lesson in difficulty-based advantage
IBM lost 13% in a day when AI learned COBOL. If clients pay you because the work is hard, AI is coming for that premium. Here are the moats that hold.
No. 03
TechnologyOctober 22, 2026
Local-first AI: why your next agent might not need the cloud
Small open models now run on hardware you can buy. Here's a three-question test for which AI workloads can stay local, and where the cloud still wins.
No. 04
BusinessOctober 21, 2026
The AI skills gap: why power users are pulling away
AI multiplies the skill you bring to it, so your power users can keep pulling ahead. Why counting logins misses that gap, and what to measure instead.
No. 05
BusinessOctober 19, 2026
Smart enough: how much intelligence does good work actually need?
Beyond a certain point, more intelligence stops helping at work. Judgement, persistence and follow-through decide who gets results, so hire for those.
No. 06
BusinessOctober 16, 2026
AI-washing: the gap between the sticker and the substance
Before you buy an 'AI-powered' feature, ask to see it with the AI switched off. Three vendor questions that separate real AI tools from a new sticker.
No. 07
TechnologyOctober 16, 2026
The visual turn in AI: why text-only prompting is already obsolete
OpenAI and Claude now answer with charts you can touch. The prompting skills gap was partly the text box's fault. How to judge an AI tool from now on.
No. 08
BusinessOctober 14, 2026
Low-hire, low-fire: when standing still becomes a strategy
Small firms can't hire and won't fire, so the team you have is the team you'll grow with. That calls for designing the work, not running more job ads.
No. 09
TechnologySeptember 10, 2026
Apple's Siri delay: how to tell a good wait from a stall
Apple's Siri delay is a useful test for your AI roadmap. A good wait names the failure it fixes and proves it. A stall just books another review date.
No. 10
BusinessSeptember 7, 2026
The AI perception gap: why executives see magic and workers see busywork
Executives say AI saves them hours a week; staff say it saves nothing. That gap measures how well bad news travels upward in a business, not the tool.