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Happy new year! I took the last two weeks completely off to focus on health and family. I'm spending the first week of 2026 thinking about one thing: what stays scarce when intelligence becomes abundant. Here's why. We've entered the Era of Asymmetric Impact. The job-apocalypse narrative gets it backwards. AI isn't replacing humans in most knowledge work. It's raising leverage so high that your ability to steer becomes the scarcest resource on Earth. And in the long run, that

Your AI might be brilliant on paper, yet dangerously naïve in reality. Most AI systems don’t truly understand the world; they simply find the easiest shortcuts buried in your data. Consider a real-world case. Researchers set out to train an AI to automatically detect pneumonia from chest X-rays. They fed a deep learning model thousands of images from a specific set of hospitals, and at first, the results looked spectacular. The model showed near-perfect accuracy on X-rays fro

I spent the last week inside the MIT/Oak Ridge "Iceberg Index" study. Not skimming the press release. Reading the actual research. What I found contradicts nearly everything you've heard about AI and jobs. The headlines scream crisis. 11.7% of U.S. wages technically automatable. Mass displacement incoming. But here's what the data actually shows: we're watching the wrong places for the wrong reasons. The Invisible Trillion Everyone is staring at Silicon Valley. The real expo

How Do You Stay Ahead When Everything's Moving This Fast?   I get asked this question all the time. Usually over coffee, sometimes after a talk, occasionally in a LinkedIn DM from someone who's feeling the acceleration and isn't sure how to keep up. My answer surprises people: I go back to school. Not for credentials. For pattern recognition. Going back to school @MIT isn't a vacation; it's the classic experience of "drinking from the firehose." The volume is overwhelming by

Exactly three years ago, Google did the same thing because of ChatGPT. Now, the tables have turned. Sam Altman has officially paused "non-essential projects" (like search ads and shopping agents) to focus entirely on the basics: speed, reliability, and reasoning. Here is the smart take on why this is happening: 𝟭\ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 "𝗙𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁-𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿" 𝗮𝗱𝘃𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗽𝗼𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱. Google’s Gemini has more than caught up. It is now my go to on multiple fronts. User

I just built this AI Toolbox prototype in under 2 hours using Google’s Antigravity. But it still needs months of real engineering work. The app takes user inputs and generates strategic outputs, including downloadable PowerPoint slides. Tools like Antigravity, Cursor, and GitHub Copilot have dramatically reduced the time to test ideas. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀. For validation, that’s genuinely useful. 𝗜’𝗺 𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗮

AI + AR glasses are evolving fast and three different strategies are starting to shape what work might look like next. Meta 𝗶 𝘀 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 “𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁.” Meta's Orion smart glasses now handle translation, messaging, navigation, and hands-free creation. In the future these will be paired with Meta’s neural wristband (EMG), moving toward subtle, almost invisible input (tapping a finger instead of pulling out a phone). Amazon 𝗶 𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝘁𝗶

Everyone's talking about AI replacing jobs. McKinsey's 60-Page Research reveals something far more nuanced and frankly, more useful for leaders navigating this shift. The real story in the data: 57% of US work hours could be automated. But the skills behind that work aren’t going away. 72% of skills show up on both sides of the automation line. Most skills won't disappear, they will evolve. Three key insights that shifted my thinking: 𝟭/ 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘀𝗳𝗼𝗿

Autopilot has been standard since the 1980s. The tech can land a plane in zero visibility. Yet, the humans remain. They remain because while the machine handles the routine, we demand human judgment for the unexpected and human accountability for the risks. 𝗧𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝗮 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿-𝗮𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗻𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁. According to insights in the MIT Sloan Manage