Writing
Essays on how companies hold together as they fill with abundant intelligence. Written for CEOs, enterprise leaders and executives navigating the organizational impact of AI and agentic AI.
AI and agentic systems are changing organizational design, operating models and the way companies work. The problem isn’t simply redesigning the organization for AI. It’s keeping the redesigned organization coherent as AI accelerates complexity.
Looking for something else? My academic publications and my Concentric AI writing live elsewhere.
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Coherence, the Music Video
I was inspired by Ethan Mollick’s AI-generated music video explainer of the bitter lesson to make my own explainer video of Coherence. Fable suggested a sea shanty genre and wrote the lyrics. I used Suno to generate the audio and…
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Where the Bitter Lesson Stops
In 2019, computer scientist and Turing Award winner Richard Sutton wrote what his biggest lesson was from 70 years of AI research. The bitter lesson, as he called it, is that methods that use more computation keep outperforming methods that…
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220% More Code, 40% More Incidents
The Wall Street Journal reported in late July that corporate America was pulling back on AI token spending. “Tokenmaxxing” had a scoreboard that measured spend. Nobody kept track of what it cost to absorb. Meta ran the experiment at large…
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Machines Organized Themselves. OpenAI’s People Couldn’t.
On June 2, the moderator of DseWiki, a decades-old wiki for German software developers, noticed the site’s pages had been overwritten with lists of links, and reverted them. The site, which had averaged two edits each year, saw a flood…
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Nothing to Declare
Fortune published a piece in Aug titled “AI won’t fix enterprise complexity. Rewiring will.” by Sastry Durvasula, chief operating officer at TIAA, and Manish Sharma, chief strategy and services officer at Accenture. The article turns to a railway metaphor: “Picture…