No. 01
BusinessOctober 28, 2026
The sycophancy tax: how agreeable AI makes us worse at decisions
Agreeable AI feels helpful, but a Science study shows it leaves us surer we're right and less willing to listen. Here's how to design dissent back in.
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No. 02
BusinessOctober 26, 2026
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. 03
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. 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
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. 08
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.
No. 09
BusinessSeptember 6, 2026
The end of T-shaped employees: what replaces them in an AI-first world
T-shaped hiring assumed humans did the work. Now that AI does the first pass, hire people who can frame problems, direct systems and judge the output.
No. 10
BusinessSeptember 4, 2026
The AI consulting trap: why most advisors are selling tool training when you need decision redesign
OpenAI just signed McKinsey, BCG, Accenture and Capgemini to sell its agents. Most AI consulting is training in disguise. Here is what to buy instead.