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Observations from twenty years of building, selling, commercializing, and operating technology. On commercial intelligence, organizational memory, and how modern organizations actually work.

  1. Commercial Intelligence · Cornerstone

    The Decision Layer

    Every company has a system for producing information and no system for turning it into decisions. That missing layer, the hinge between what a company knows and what it does, is the whole game.

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  2. Operating Systems

    Every Company Is Building A Second Company

    One company is on the org chart. The other is made of memory, automation, and agents. Almost no one is managing it on purpose.

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  3. Organizational Memory

    The Most Valuable Knowledge In A Company Doesn't Exist In Any System

    The biggest asset in most organizations lives in conversations, meetings, inboxes, and people's heads. It walks out the door a little more every day.

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  4. AI Adoption

    Why Most AI Projects Feel Impressive And Accomplish Nothing

    The demo dazzles. The pilot succeeds. Then nothing changes. The failure is almost never the model. It is the assumption that AI is a tool instead of an operating system.

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  5. AI & Strategy

    What Happens When Reading Becomes Free

    For all of business history, reading and synthesis were expensive. They just became nearly free. Almost no one has thought through what that breaks.

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  6. Operating Notes

    Nobody Hires You To Build The Thing You're Eventually Known For

    The work that defines a career almost never appears in the job description that started it. Mine took twenty years to come into focus.

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