Reflection Feb 10, 2026 · 1 min read
Same Game, Different Sand
The best indoor player I ever coached couldn't pass a ball on sand. Same sport. Same skills. Completely different game. I'm living that transition right now.
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AI & Automation Jan 17, 2026 · 1 min read
The Next Chapter: What Happens When You Try to Scale Intent-Driven Engineering
I've spent six months proving that one person with AI agents can build what used to require a team. Now I'm joining Commerce.com to find out if that methodology survives contact with an organization.
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Consulting Practice Jan 16, 2026 · 1 min read
The Cognitive Foundry, Part 2: What the Simulation Can't Teach
I wrote about simulation replacing apprenticeship. Then I stress-tested the idea. The technical case still holds—but I was wrong about what matters most.
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Consulting Practice Jan 16, 2026 · 1 min read
The Cognitive Foundry
The consulting industry's apprenticeship model was never really about the work—it was about proximity to mastery. When AI handles the grind, how does anyone learn to become a partner? The answer is reshaping the entire profession.
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AI & Automation Jan 12, 2026 · 1 min read
The AI Analyst
We're not short on people who can chat with a bot. We're starved for people who can deconstruct a business process into atomic units an AI can actually execute. That gap has a name now.
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AI & Automation Jan 10, 2026 · 1 min read
The Agentic Student
College students aren't just using AI chatbots anymore. They're building automation systems, running local LLMs, and treating software engineering as a just-in-time capability. The 'Chat Terminal' era is over.
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Consulting Practice Jan 7, 2026 · 1 min read
The Third Race to the Bottom
Consulting has played this game twice before—with body shops, then offshore. Now AI is the new lever. But what if the pattern itself is the problem?
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Consulting Practice Dec 21, 2025 · 1 min read
The Kitchen I'm Looking For
I don't need more Salesmen. I need a Sushi Master, a Pitmaster, and a Molecular Gastronomist. AI lets us return to the Guild—craftspeople in their own lanes, augmenting their own mastery.
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Insights Dec 14, 2025 · 1 min read
I Don't Want to Be a 10-Person Team of One
I've been the bridge. Between strategy and code, between design and delivery. It's exhausting. And lately I've been wondering if exhausting is the same thing as valuable.
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Insights Dec 2, 2025 · 1 min read
The Role That Doesn't Have a Title
After 25 years bridging strategy to production, I still can't answer 'what do you do?' cleanly. That might be the point.
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AI & Automation Nov 5, 2025 · 1 min read
Intent-Driven Engineering: By The Numbers
I built a $2.5M platform in 80 hours using GenAI tools. Heres what the numbers actually say about productivity, cost, and what happens when you stop pretending software takes as long as it used to.
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