There’s something almost biblical about the way these guys operate.They don’t build companies anymore — they build temples to themselves. You’ve seen it: the aging executive who insists on running a “modern digital venture” entirely through local copies of Microsoft Word . No version control, no shared drives, no Google Docs, no transparency. It’s not about productivity — it’s about control.He treats the document like sacred scripture, locked in his desktop tomb where only he

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

I have just witnessed a masterpiece. A man with a printer, a dream, and apparently way too much free time has done what most cybersecurity professionals spend decades trying to achieve: he hacked the human condition — with stickers. Here’s the play:He prints QR codes — just generic black-and-white codes — and pastes them perfectly  over existing ones in the wild. You know, menus, vending machines, parking meters, those tiny “scan me” squares that have become the universal doo

Every era of technology has its cartographers. People who climb high enough above the noise to see the shape of what’s coming, and then translate it into something the rest of us can navigate. For decades, Mary Meeker has been one of those people. Her Internet Trends  reports shaped the early web, the mobile wave, and the first real data-driven understanding of our digital lives. And her new deep-dive into AI marks another one of those moments where her view from altitude cl

There are days when I leave a session feeling like we just cracked a new code for what’s possible. And then there are days like this . Yesterday was Alchemy at AI Speed —eight and a half hours of pure momentum. One client, one mission, one day. A full platform, born from nothing, live by dinner. That’s what it looks like when the spark hits oxygen. Today? Today was the opposite. Five months (actually five years ) into a project that should’ve taken five days . A team of smart

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

Quantum Just Went Rack-Mountable — And Everything Just Changed Let’s not bury the lead. China just launched a 100-qubit, room-temperature quantum computer  — and you can rack it in your data center. Not a prototype. Not a physics experiment. An actual product. Shipping now. Called Hanyuan-1 . Three server racks. Neutral-atom architecture. Plug and play. Let me translate that into reality: This week, quantum computing went from science fiction to IT procurement. From Lab Equip

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 not sugarcoat it: Meta has been knowingly profiting from scam ads on its platforms, and new internal documents show just how deep the rabbit hole goes. According to a bombshell Reuters investigation , Meta (yes, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) internally projected that 10% of its 2024 revenue — roughly $16 billion — would come from ads promoting scams, fraud, or banned products. Not suspected scams. Not accidental ones. These are known  bad acto

If you want a single, unfiltered example of how the world manages to be simultaneously brilliant and boneheaded, look no further than the Louvre heist. I’ve seen breaches where the defenders did everything right and still lost — that’s life on the wire. This? This wasn’t that. This was a comedy of errors so spectacular it belongs in a heist movie with popcorn and a two-cocktail intermission. Here’s what went down, in plain terms your CISO will be too embarrassed to admit out

The internet just caught AI in the act — but the crime scene looks more like a mirror. Reddit set a “honey pot” — a fake post visible only to Google’s crawler. When Perplexity’s AI surfaced that invisible post, it confirmed what many suspected: Perplexity wasn’t just browsing the open web; it was pulling from Google’s cached  Reddit content via proxy networks like OxyLabs, WMProxy, and SerpAPI. In plain English: Reddit built a locked vault, Google indexed the vault, and Perpl

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)

We just teleported the state of light through a live internet cable. That’s not metaphor — it’s infrastructure now. Let’s talk about what that means for trust, sovereignty, security, and how we even define “sending information” anymore. “Beam Me Up” Just Became a Network Protocol Not to get overly sci-fi here, but yes — we’re officially in Star Trek territory. In 2025, scientists at Northwestern University teleported the quantum state of a photon  across 30 kilometers of comm

At 1:01 p.m. Eastern, the storm everyone feared finally crossed the line. Hurricane Melissa — the once-theoretical “worst-case” storm for Jamaica — made landfall near New Hope, St. Elizabeth Parish, with maximum sustained winds of 185 mph and a central pressure of 892 millibars. That ties it with the 1935 Labor Day Hurricane and Hurricane Dorian (2019) as the strongest landfall ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. One hundred years later, nature just broke its own record — ag

I’ve always had a thing for weather.Not the polite kind—the afternoon sprinkle on your windshield or the thunder rolling off somewhere near the horizon. No, I’m talking about the kind of weather that gets under your skin. The kind that hums with voltage. The kind that feels like the planet taking a deep breath before it decides what happens next. Hurricanes have always been that for me. They’re chaos and order intertwined—fluid, elegant, and terrifying. I’ve stood through the

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.