In 2009, Palm unveiled webOS — software so good that Steve Jobs allegedly panicked. Multi-tasking, card-based navigation, developer-friendly APIs, seamless notifications. By most accounts it was …
We’ve Always Been Building Paperclip Machines
My former colleague Mark House wrote something this week that's been rattling around in my head. He references the Universal Paperclips game — a browser game where an AI tasked with making paperclips …
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Kodak’s Lost Moment: What Product Leaders Must Learn from the First Digital Camera
What separates an invention from an industry transformation? The story of the first handheld digital camera is a useful lens. It’s not just a tale about pixels replacing film — it’s about incentives, …
How to Stop Your Product from Rotting: Product Leadership Against Enshittification
Introduction Why do once‑useful platforms and products that delighted users slowly become hollow shells that prioritise growth over quality? That slow decline — called enshittification by Cory …
It’s debt, all the way down: the AI build‑out financed on borrowed time
There is a pattern emerging beneath the headlines: the rush to build AI capacity is not just a tech story, it is a financing story. When the biggest deals are underpinned by borrowed money, you stop …
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Handing Technology to Procurement Is Corporate Self‑Harm: Why Every Leader Must Be Technically Literate
What happens when the people who decide your technology treat it like a commodity to be purchased, not a capability to be grown? The short answer: expensive failure. The recent collapse of an Oracle …