Tag: Technology
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Don’t out think AI. Out human AI.
As AI capabilities rapidly close the gap on what only humans could do, I leaned on these insights from Toni Cowan-Brown and Benedict Evans on *Another Podcast* to guide my thinking. Give it a listen: AI and SaaS. “I hadn’t thought of that…analogy of ‘is this what ChatGPT would have written?’ Great, then I have nothing…
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Predicting AI Was Not the Problem. Preparing for It Was.
Key distinction: The gap between knowing AI is coming and strategizing for it. We had the roadmap; the risk was not being able to connect the dots. We Had the Roadmap. We Just Didn’t Use It. In 2016, Ajay Agrawal and co-authors published a piece in HBR called The Simple Economics of Machine Intelligence. The core argument was almost disarmingly simple:…
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Being a VP: Moving from Doing to Transforming
“We have too many VPs acting like directors — they are overpaid and ineffective for what they produce.” Someone said that to me early in my career. It landed hard. Not because it was harsh, but because I could picture exactly who they meant. The VP role is genuinely ambiguous. Most people who get promoted…
Jeff Beaumont 