Direction Over Acceleration
When Execution Becomes Cheap, Strategic Choice Is the Ultimate Competitive Advantage
AI conversations have a natural starting point: What can this technology do?
It is an understandable question. Every few weeks, the answer gets larger. Models can write, analyze, code, search, reason, generate images, operate software, and increasingly take autonomous action rather…
Kill Criteria and Exit Mechanics: An Option You Cannot Bring Yourself to Abandon Is Not an Option at All
Real-options reasoning sounds clean in a corporate slide deck, promising a cheap trial where you evaluate evidence before deciding whether to commit real capital. But an experiment only works if its main job is to…
The Shortstack Model; Software Architecture as Strategic Optionality
Walk into almost any legal department or enterprise IT steering committee today, and you will find a group of smart people quietly maintaining a museum of recent enthusiasm.
Three years ago, as generative models began showing real promise, the immediate institutional instinct was to convene a…
Intelligence is Raw Material. Protocol is the Product.
We often confuse the power of a new tool with the effectiveness of its application.
The giants of the AI industry have provided us with a magnificent “Power Grid.” They have given us raw, unmanaged intelligence at a scale previously unimagined. But we must be clear-eyed about…
I have just posted a trio of new research white papers to SSRN. These represent the latest output from the Kennedy Idea Propulsion Laboratory and the culmination of my work over the last month to move AI beyond “utilitarian drift.” This is the cycle of incremental efficiency gains that ultimately generates no transformative insight.…
At the end of a long, technical AI session this week, something became clear to me: human-in-the-loop is being misunderstood in ways that matter.
The issue wasn’t whether the system could generate outputs quickly…
