GenAI: A Dunning-Kruger Machine
It makes people confidently wrong....
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Burn tokens to produce value, not points
Tokens are the cognitive fuel for an LLM but much like we wouldn't waste fuel for just anything, their use should be strictly controlled?...
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Cognitive Surrender: The Real AI Threat Nobody Is Talking About
Reports of the death of jobs may be premature...
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Smith, Watt, Marx, and AI That Will Not End Work (tech never does)
What a Scottish economist, his techie, and a German philosopher can tell us about the moment we're in right now....
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Your Recent Service: What AI Gets Right That Healthcare Gets Wrong
What my MS infusion center texted me after pumping $12,000 of biologic into my veins...
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Vibe Coding, Vibe Doctoring, Vibe Teaching, Vibe Parenting...
Easier tools don’t create experts. They expose who isn’t one....
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The Death Sprital
Paraphrasing Twain, Reports Of (Our) Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated...
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LLM's Don't Reason: People Do
LLMs produce beautiful prose, not reliable reasoning. But they're great at augmenting people who do....
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The Confidence Machine
AI keeps getting smarter. That's not the problem we think it is....
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Infrastructure vs. Theater: Why Schools Are Failing the AI Test
What a failed grilled cheese empire taught me about institutional death spirals...
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Better Models Make Strategic Systems More Necessary
Raw intelligence isn’t the bottleneck. Structure is....
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If LLMs Could Do Strategy, Google Would Be Winning
Why the world's smartest models still struggle with the messiest part of business: people....
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Slaying AI Patent Trolls (or at least making their lives miserable)
How my 2002 patent filing protects VSTRAT and everyone else building expert systems for professionals....
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AI: A Little Knowledge Can Go A Long Way to Creating Mayhem
Be careful when leaning on "experts."...
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VSTRAT.ai: A Tool that Builds Businesses
Not just another shiny app; VSTRAT is a tool that builds other tools....
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AI Did Not Begin in 2022
The breakthroughs we celebrate today sit on top of decades of applied work that most people never noticed....
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