Corporate Currency: The Hidden Social Economy of Organizations Every organization runs an unwritten social economy where attention is priced and trust is the reserve asset. Corporate Currency is the operator's manual: three ways to earn, two ways to spend, and one mistake that costs more than all the rest.
Seventy Years of Technology Hype: What Failed Predictions Tell Us About the AI Economic Boom Tech hype cycles repeat: past predictions of a "paperless office" or "end of work" fell flat, and today's AI forecasts likely face similar challenges. Learn what history can teach us about tempering expectations for the AI economic boom.
The Meter Picks the Winners Model selection, problem selection, and the economics underneath them are going to pick the winners and losers of the agentic era. The meter is just the scorekeeper.
The 8-Stage AI Trust Evolution: A Map for the Journey AI adoption is a journey through eight discrete stages of trust, from practitioner to strategist. Each transition demands different infrastructure, and the hardest one, Stage 2 to Stage 3, requires building the factory before running the agents.
Why Now: The Capability-Cost Inflection Point Hype is a poor discriminator: every real technological revolution arrived with a bubble attached. What separates AI from Web3 and the metaverse is the capability and cost evidence, and that evidence is already on the books.
The AI Adoption Maturity Ladder: Which Rung Are You On? Most organizations sit on rung two of the AI adoption ladder and believe they are on rung three. The gap matters because the interventions that work at each rung differ, and the most reliable diagnostic is what happens when AI fails.
Labor Compression: The Right Economic Frame for AI Replacement is the wrong frame for AI and the workforce. Labor compression, the reduction of hours required per role, turns a binary fear into the strategic question that matters: what happens to the freed capacity?
Not That GPT: AI as a Generally Productive Technology Economists were using the acronym GPT decades before OpenAI. Reading AI as a general purpose technology, in the lineage of electricity and the internet, changes the questions leaders should ask and the time they have to ask them.
Why Projects Fail Project failure rates are dismal – less than 50% succeed! Let's explore the root causes beyond just "software people need to change" and work towards a better standard.
VSIX Installer: Fixing the PkgDefProjectOutputGroup Error Struggling with a "PkgdefProjectOutputGroup" error in your VSIX installer? A sneaky URL-encoding issue in your `.csproj` file might be the culprit – check those semicolons!
