Forget the hype, the frameworks, and the “AI roadmaps.” Here’s what actually works. Let’s get this out of the way: most AI “strategies” are theater. Decks. Demos. Buzzwords wrapped in billable hours. You’ve seen it. A consultant rolls in with a 70-slide presentation full of “maturity matrices” and “transformation frameworks.” They talk about aligning AI to business objectives, governance layers, and something-something operational synergy. And yet—three months later, your tea

In my world, resolution  isn’t a promise — it’s a setting. Something you tweak on a monitor until things look sharp enough. Static. Fixed. Done. But I’m not interested in static anymore. This year, I’m not setting resolutions. I’m setting direction and executing. The Past Two Years: The Build Phase The last couple of years have been about building — systems, tools, prototypes, proofs of concept. Some for Eliakim Capital , some for Data Power Supply , and some just because I

Because your body’s been white-knuckling life for too long. Let’s start with the truth:There’s a sacred moment  in every shower. No, not that one. The other one. The one where you turn just right and that steady stream of hot water lands perfectly between your shoulder blades — right on your spine — and suddenly your whole body just… lets go. Your shoulders drop. Your breath deepens. And for a brief, glorious moment, the noise of the world dials down. That’s not comfort. That

Somewhere along the line, the culture shifted. We stopped pretending. For decades, success was about the illusion of control. The polished pitch deck. The glossy commercial. The polished founder who never broke a sweat — even when everything was on fire behind the scenes. That’s the “fake it till you make it” era.And it’s over. Because right now, we’re watching something wild happen across the entire digital landscape: the rise of the Build-in-Public crowd — the people who ar

And why AI might finally slow us back down. There was a time when running a process meant you could go make a sandwich. Back in the day, computing was slow. You’d start a program, watch the progress bar crawl, maybe hear the hard drive click like a heartbeat, and then… you waited. Compiling code? Go grab lunch. Rendering a video? See you in the morning. Early computing was a Zen garden of patience and progress wheels. Then we got impatient.We wanted faster chips, shorter wait

Let’s start with a truth that makes a lot of people uncomfortable: The most valuable data set in the world isn’t sitting on a server. It’s sitting in people. Specifically — in you. All those years of doing, breaking, fixing, managing, selling, designing, negotiating, training — that’s data . Real, human data. Pattern recognition, decision trees, instinct models, and judgment calls that no algorithm could fake until now. And here’s the part nobody’s saying out loud:That knowle

You ever notice how every era has its buzzword bullshit? Like, back in the day, every computer was bragging about its clock speed. “1.4 gigahertz!” “2.0 gigahertz!” It was the language of power. Nobody actually knew what it meant, but it had a number, and bigger numbers meant better computers, right? Same with RAM. Same with hard drives. Same with every tech label we could slap on a box. “Intel Inside” was practically gospel — and it didn’t matter if anyone understood it. Mar

Yesterday, Voyager I officially joined the One Light-Day Club. That’s 16 billion miles away — far enough that a radio signal takes a full 24 hours just to say hello. You send a “ping,” and tomorrow, it waves back. Launched in 1977, Voyager’s been on the road for nearly half a century. It’s seen the planets, crossed the edge of the solar system, and is now coasting through interstellar space on autopilot. After 2026, it’ll never again be within one light day of Earth. It’ll ju

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

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

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