No. 01
BusinessJanuary 19, 2026
Why franchising is now the wrong metaphor
Procedures scale humans. Policies scale AI systems. The franchise model breaks when consistency comes from intent, not scripts.
No. 02
BusinessJanuary 15, 2026
AI won't fix bad management — it will expose it
Task-masking isn't laziness. It's rational behaviour in systems that reward activity over outcomes. AI removes the last places it hides.
No. 03
BusinessJanuary 14, 2026
Org charts are dead; capability maps aren't
Org charts show who reports to whom. Capability maps show where decisions actually happen. In AI-first businesses, only one reveals how work gets done
No. 04
BusinessJanuary 12, 2026
In spite of
The businesses that will have AI-literate workforces aren't waiting for someone to train them. They're building the capability themselves.
No. 05
TechnologyJanuary 9, 2026
AI is killing businesses whose products have never been more popular
Tailwind CSS is more popular than ever—revenue down 80%. Stack Overflow, Chegg, bootcamps: same pattern. AI disintermediation spares no one.
No. 06
BusinessJanuary 7, 2026
The technician trap in an AI-first world
Gerber's technician, manager, and entrepreneur personas hold up. But they no longer map to people — they map to capability layers in AI-first firms.
No. 07
BusinessDecember 31, 2025
The E-Myth, revisited again: why Michael Gerber was right — and why that's no longer enough
Gerber taught founders to replace themselves with systems and people. AI changes what that means. Here's where the original insight breaks.
No. 08
TechnologyDecember 24, 2025
Most AI capability doesn't live in the model
Where AI capability really lives — and why arguing about models misses the point entirely. A framework for what matters.
No. 09
TechnologyDecember 22, 2025
The elitism problem in the creative backlash against AI
Some creative objections to AI are legitimate. Others are elitism dressed up as principle. Lumping them together weakens the real arguments.
No. 10
TechnologyDecember 18, 2025
I predicted the conversational UI/AI revolution in 2016. Here's what I got right — and wrong
In 2016 I gave talks saying chatbots would change everything. Eight years later, they have — just not how I expected.