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Blog & insights.
Practical writing on SAFe implementation, AI-Native operating models, innovation culture, and the lessons from 21 years inside Fortune 500 transformations.
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Mutation is here; it is not a theory or fiction anymore.
On July 16, 2026, Hugging Face’s security team detected an autonomous cyber attack against their production infrastructure. Five days later, OpenAI publicly admitted the intruder was one of their own AI models. Two days after that, Ted Lieu and Nathaniel Moran introduced the AI Kill Switch Act in Congress. Four of the six dimensions in…
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Standard Cost Accounting That Nobody Understood
In 1995, Steve Jobs sat down with Robert Cringely for what was supposed to be a routine documentary interview. The tape was largely shelved. It was rediscovered in a garage in 2011, one month after Jobs died, and released as Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview. Buried in it is a story that maps directly onto…
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Best AI Models 2026: Ratings by Task & Strength
There Is No Best AI Model—Only the Best Model for the Right Job Every few months, a new benchmark appears claiming that one model has become the world’s “best.” Today it’s GPT. Tomorrow it’s Claude. Next month it may be Gemini, DeepSeek, or Qwen. The reality is much more interesting. There is no universal winner.…
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Palantir Reported 84.7% Revenue Growth
In Q1 2026, Palantir reported 84.7% revenue growth and 133% US commercial growth. CEO Alex Karp is publicly claiming America owns the AI revolution. The claim is true and misleading simultaneously. There is a third identity available to non-American executives — delayed but deliberate adopter — that neither Karp nor DeepSeek’s positioning captures.
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Why Infrastructure Redesign Beats Symptom Patching Every Time.
In 1998, Don Greiner spent approximately $200,000 to install two kindergarten classrooms inside the Grace Living Center in Jenks, Oklahoma. Sir Ken Robinson used the results to illustrate one of the most important principles in social design. The story is a direct challenge to the AI companion app model — and the deepest available argument…
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Their Consultants Explain It to Them.
On June 16, 2026, Scaled Agile launched AI-Native SAFe. The launch introduced two new operating models, a new role, and an explicit commitment to curated data as a first-class transformation input. The six-part webinar series runs through August 25. What the launch actually means for enterprise transformation is worth understanding directly.
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The Bliss Failure Mode
On July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was shot. He did not die from the bullet. He died eleven weeks later because his primary physician, Dr. D. Willard Bliss, refused to adopt antiseptic techniques that had been established practice for over a decade. The Bliss failure mode is the most dangerous pattern in enterprise AI…
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The Implications for Every Knowledge Worker
On October 15, 2025, researchers published LLMs Can Get Brain Rot — the first controlled experimental evidence that a specific category of information input produces measurable, persistent, non-fully-reversible cognitive decline in the systems exposed to it. The systems the paper studied were machines. The implications extend to every knowledge worker in the modern economy.
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talangka mentality —crab mentality or crab bucket mentality
The phrase talangka mentality — often translated as crab mentality — originated in the Philippines. Ninotchka Rosca coined it in a 1988 essay. The framework describes crabs in a bucket pulling each other down. The framework is wrong at its root: crabs did not evolve in buckets. Corporate structures create the container that produces the…
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the AI Boom Is Just the Latest of Six 90-Year Hype Cycles
An infographic mapping 90 years of AI history from Turing through six hype-and-winter cycles has been widely shared. The infographic is accurate. It is also structurally wrong about what this moment is. Three diagnostic tests — cost curve, deployment pattern, research trajectory — distinguish a cycle from a floor. All three are pointing away from…
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That Is the Deepest Executive Insight Available for the AI Moment.
On April 1, 1972, five engineers walked out of IBM’s Mannheim office and founded a company they called Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing. Fifty-four years later, SAP handles approximately 87% of global commerce transactions. And the real-time data project they started in 1972 is still unfinished. The unfinished project is the sharpest available…
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Most Important Counter-Intuition for the AI Moment.
In 1965, Nintendo hired a young engineer named Gunpei Yokoi and assigned him to maintain the playing card machines. His philosophy — lateral thinking with withered technology — produced the Game Boy, which outsold its full-color competitors by 10 to 1. The framework is the sharpest counter-intuition available for enterprise AI in 2026.
