The Day the Cloud Ran Out of Chips
For twenty years, cloud architecture rested on a single unwritten premise: compute capacity is infinite. You benchmarked your service on a specific virtual machine shape, hardcoded it into your Terraform…
Twelve Years Without a VPN
I have not used a corporate VPN in more than ten years. At Google, access to internal applications depends on the user and the device, not on the network. This…
TLDR; CIO AI Summit: The Uncomfortable Truths Enterprise AI Leaders Won’t Say Out Loud
I spent two days at the CIO AI Summit in Munich this September, attending every single session. What I witnessed wasn’t the typical vendor-driven optimism you’d expect at a tech…
The 18-Month Myth: Why AI Isn’t Destroying Critical Thinking, It’s Redefining It.
The conversation about artificial intelligence usually gravitates toward spectacular disasters. We worry about superintelligence seizing control or mass unemployment destabilizing society. Derek Thompson’s widely discussed essay, “You Have 18 Months,”…
The Amplifier Effect: Why Your AI Strategy is Failing (and How to Fix It)
For the past two years, the world of software development has been defined by a single, seismic question: What is the true impact of AI? The initial data was puzzling.…
Beyond the Screen: The Resurgence of Extreme Hardware and Embodied AI
For nearly a decade, Silicon Valley’s mantra has been clear: dematerialize everything. Transform atoms into bits. Move fast and break things, but preferably break them in code where the damage…
The Two-Month Sprint That Rewrote the AI Playbook: What NotebookLM Teaches Us About Building in the Age of AI
Last Tuesday, I watched a founder friend upload his entire company’s documentation into NotebookLM. Twenty seconds later, two AI podcasters were discussing his business model with the kind of insight…
How AI Just Solved Education’s Oldest Problem
Every teacher knows this moment: A student struggling with Newton’s laws while their classmate breezes through. The traditional response? “Read it again.” But what if the problem isn’t the student’s…
The Day AI Agents Got a Credit Card: Why AP2 Changes Everything
Last week, during a conversation with a CTO friend in Berlin, he casually mentioned his AI assistant had just negotiated a 30% discount on their cloud infrastructure bill. Not him,…
Read to Forget: The Art of Selective Information Consumption
We’ve all seen it. Maybe it was a university colleague whose textbook looked more yellow than white, nearly every paragraph aggressively highlighted. Or perhaps it was the person in the…