Why I don’t meet — I build. If you’re looking to “schedule a meeting,” stop. I don’t do meetings. I do. And I don’t mean that like a tagline — I mean it literally. If I have an hour free, I’m not spending it talking about  doing something I could just… do. That’s not impatience; that’s what focus looks like in the age of AI. The work I do doesn’t start with discussion. It starts with motion. Meetings were invented for people who didn’t have the tools to execute in real time.

The closest thing to NZT you can legally buy. There are consulting sessions. And then there’s this. Eight and a half hours. One client. A shared screen, an open mind, and a blank canvas that turned into a living platform before our eyes. It wasn’t a meeting. It was an informative, transformative maelstrom  of brand birth. A full-tilt build-and-learn sprint where ideas didn’t wait for approval — they became real the instant they were spoken. That’s what happens when you work i

Why the Godfather of Deep Learning Might Be Plotting the Next AI Revolution — And Why It Matters More Than You Think You know those moments where something big  is happening, but it doesn’t come with fireworks or a keynote stage? It’s just... quiet. Subtle. But seismic? This might be one of those moments. Word’s coming out — mostly whispered, not shouted — that Yann LeCun , Meta’s Chief AI Scientist, is preparing to exit the company and start his own research lab or startup.

It used to be the one with the title. The corner office. The authority. Not anymore. Today, the most dangerous person in any room isn’t chasing applause, approval, or perception. They’re the one sitting quietly in the back — calm, confident, and completely underestimated — because they’re running a system in their head no one else can see. That’s operational power — and it’s rewriting everything you think you know about hierarchy, influence, and control. The Old Game: Power T

There’s a guy on YouTube — a seemingly innocent man — who builds these tiny remote-control cars in his garage. They're adorable. They’re fast. They corner like little rally demons. He even programs them with wireless remotes and custom PCBs and prints the enclosures on what appears to be a farm of 3D printers. He’s smart. Creative. Focused. Wholesome, even. I hate him. Now to be clear, my hatred has nothing  to do with the cars. The cars are great. I hope they go to nationals

You’ve probably heard me say this before: the system isn’t broken — it’s working exactly as designed. Hospitals, banks, insurance companies, government agencies — all of them have operated for decades on a simple, ugly truth: the less you understand, the more they can charge you. That’s not cynicism. That’s architecture. It’s called institutional information asymmetry — and it’s the invisible engine behind every “policy,” “procedure,” and “unavoidable fee” you’ve ever been hi

This all started with a phone call. An old friend of mine, Boris — a fellow IBM alum and one of the few people who still remembers what IRQ conflicts felt like — called me out of the blue a few weeks back. He had a question about AI. Simple enough. But if you’ve ever talked to two lifelong tech guys, you know how that goes. Five minutes in, we were no longer talking about AI — we were talking about everything that led to AI . We fell straight down the nostalgia rabbit hole: A

Let’s be honest — the 10kW rack era isn’t just over. It’s ancient history.And it’s not coming back. What’s happening right now is something entirely different: an all-out power and cooling arms race inside every data center — built or unbuilt. The demand curve isn’t plateauing. It’s accelerating, steeply. And for the foreseeable future, that’s not going to change. People keep saying, “Well, quantum will change everything.” Not for this. Quantum is incredible, but it’s not bui

Let’s start with a truth that’s equal parts uncomfortable and undeniable: If you’ve got deep expertise in anything  — consulting, medicine, engineering, marketing, welding, whatever — you’re training your replacement right now. And no, not the human one. The AI one. Projects like Argentum  (Bloomberg’s scoop about hundreds of ex-McKinsey, Bain, and BCG consultants training AI to do entry-level consulting) and Project Mercury  (ex-bankers teaching financial modeling to models)

Let’s be honest—process mapping used to suck. It was the equivalent of eating your vegetables before you could touch the steak. Necessary? Sure. Fun? Not remotely. Whether it was defining database structures before writing a single line of code, or sketching out user journeys before building an app, process mapping always felt like the preamble to the “real” work. But here’s the thing: it was always the most important part. If you've ever written a business plan, mapped out a

COVID did for remote work what the Russia-Ukraine war is doing for drone warfare. The pandemic didn’t invent Zoom, Teams, or Slack — it simply forced every organization on Earth to use them. Overnight, “digital transformation” went from strategy deck buzzword to survival tactic. Warfare is now having the same moment. From Platforms to Packets In June 2024, Ukraine’s Operation Spiderweb  didn’t just destroy aircraft — it rewrote doctrine. Drones launched from inside Russia’s b

Let me tell you something strange: We don’t know how to build the Space Shuttle anymore. NASA had the plans. The blueprints. The specs.What they didn’t have was the team —the network of minds, habits, and shared mental models that made it all work. That knowledge didn’t live in one document. It lived in hallway conversations. In hand gestures. In intuition built through repetition and failure. When those engineers retired or moved on, the Shuttle didn’t just become obsolete.

Here’s a question I get all the time:“Is everything I type into ChatGPT making it smarter?” Short answer? No. Longer answer? Hell no. And honestly, that’s the part people don’t get — but it’s the key to understanding where we are right now  in AI and where we’re heading faster than most realize. The AI You’re Using is Frozen in Time Every AI model you’ve ever interacted with — GPT-4, Claude, Grok 1, 2, 5, whatever — is basically locked in amber. It's not learning. It's not ev

If you’ve been using ChatGPT since the early days, you remember how wild it was — the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence wrapped in one of the simplest interfaces imaginable. It felt like driving a spaceship with two buttons: “send” and “regenerate.” Fast-forward to now, and it’s not just a chat box anymore. It’s starting to look and feel like a full-on operating system for your digital life . Projects, Custom GPTs, Memory, Connectors, Sora, the Atlas Browser — it’

We’ve all asked whether AI can really write code. Whether it understands what it’s doing. Whether it even understands anything at all. But lately, I’ve started asking a different question: What if AI isn’t just learning to code in our systems? What if it’s beginning to interface with the source code of reality itself? This isn’t just philosophical musing—it’s grounded in what’s happening right now inside bleeding-edge quantum systems. Take Google’s Willow  chip: a machine tha

There’s a hard truth nobody wants to say out loud: if you’re not adapting to modern tools — if you’re not using AI, automating your workflows, or streamlining with the tech that’s already freely available — you are the problem. Not the market. Not the system. You. We’re living in an adapt or die  era. Technology isn’t creeping forward anymore — it’s sprinting. AI has hit escape velocity. What used to take teams of people and days of work can now be done in minutes. For free.

If you’ve been on the internet in the last 48 hours, you’ve probably seen that  photo — a massive white-roofed facility in Memphis with MACROHARD  painted across it in letters so huge you can literally see them from space. And of course, it came straight from Elon Musk’s X account. Classic Elon: half-joke, half-omen, and somehow both at the same time. This is the same man who named a car line “S3XY,” sent a sports car into orbit, and made flamethrowers a consumer product. So

So… OpenAI just dropped Atlas , their brand-new AI-powered browser . And somewhere out there, a thousand Chrome extensions just quietly curled up and died. Copy helpers, summarizers, productivity widgets, those sidebar AI things everyone rushed to build last year — all gone in one press release. Atlas basically did to browser plug-ins what the iPhone did to the flip phone industry: it smiled, waved politely, and rewrote the rules of the game. But under the hood, this isn’t ju

If you’ve ever dropped a few lines into ChatGPT and watched it choke out a red error message, you’ve probably thought, “Well, it’s broken.” It’s not. Your AI isn’t broken — you’re just talking to it without context. The Call That Sparked It A friend of mine called recently — the kind of call I get two or three times a day — frustrated because ChatGPT “wasn’t working.” He pasted what looked like the start of an email into GPT-5, hit enter… red error. Tried again in a new chat…

When us-east-1 Sneezes, the Internet Gets a Cold At exactly 3:11 AM this morning—because apparently the cloud has a flair for irony— Amazon Web Services’ us-east-1 region  tripped over its own DNS resolver and faceplanted, taking half the internet down with it. For those of us of a certain age, sipping our morning coffee while watching dashboards fail to load, there was only one thing going through our heads: 🎶 Gonna take the internet down… down…  🎶 Yes. 311. The band. The