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Digital Trasformation
Most of what I write stands alone. Some of it doesn’t — some ideas take six or eight pieces to make properly, and reading part four first is how you end up disagreeing with something I never said.
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Three threads run through everything here. Each one starts with a question, and each question has an answer long enough to need a series.
DIGITAL CHANGE
Why Trasformation Fails
Almost none of the projects I watched fail did so because of the technology. They failed on definitions of “done” that never matched, on a decision made in September that was needed in March, on a handover that was a folder. The technology is almost always fine.
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I Didn’t Choose Digital Transformation. It Arrived Where I Was Already Standing.
People ask me why I work in digital transformation, and the honest answer is uncomfortable. I didn’t pick it. When I started, the phrase didn’t exist. There was no category, no conference track, no consultancy practice with that name on the door. There were networks that had to stay up, and there was me, twenty-something,…
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The Scariest AI Risk Isn’t That it Will Take Control. It’s That We’ll Hand it Over.
We keep imagining the wrong AI apocalypse. Robots turn against humans. A superintelligence escapes from a lab. Machines decide we’re no longer useful. Great material for Netflix. But Sam Altman recently described a scenario that should worry professionals far more. Because it doesn’t require AI to become evil. It only requires us to become lazy.…
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I Didn’t Choose Digital Transformation. It Arrived Where I Was Already Standing.
People ask me why I work in digital transformation, and the honest answer is uncomfortable. I didn’t pick it. When I started, the phrase didn’t exist. There was no category, no conference track, no consultancy practice with that name on the door. There were networks that had to stay up, and there was me, twenty-something,…
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The Tax Nobody Votes For
Where complexity actually enters an organisation, and why every decision that created it looked correct at the time. Coming Soon
Human + AI
Borrowed Judgement
My first serious work was on Expert Systems, back when AI was an acronym you had to explain at dinner. I watched the field get buried and come back louder than anyone predicted. What hasn’t changed is the question underneath: what happens to professional judgement when a plausible answer arrives in two seconds.
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I Put a Red Alert on My Own Website. Three Weeks Later, Nobody Saw It.
I built a red bar across the top of my site last month. Full width. White text. High contrast — I checked the numbers, 7.3 to 1, comfortably past the accessibility threshold. It was, by every measure I could apply, impossible to miss. My regular readers missed it. Not because they’re careless. Because it was…
Pro Growth
Still Here After Five Cycles
Five complete technology cycles in thirty years, and each one arrived promising that everything before it was now obsolete. Some of it was. Most of it wasn’t. This series is about telling the difference before you spend a year defending the wrong thing.
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I Put a Red Alert on My Own Website. Three Weeks Later, Nobody Saw It.
I built a red bar across the top of my site last month. Full width. White text. High contrast — I checked the numbers, 7.3 to 1, comfortably past the accessibility threshold. It was, by every measure I could apply, impossible to miss. My regular readers missed it. Not because they’re careless. Because it was…
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