For more than twenty-five years, I have watched technology cycles oscillate between the "magic" phase and the "utility" phase. From my early days at Nokia during the first mobile explosion to leading …
The Agentic Shield: Defending Product Value Against the Rot Economy
For more than twenty-five years, I have watched technology cycles oscillate between the "magic" phase and the "utility" phase. I remember the early days at Nokia when we treated the mobile phone as a …
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The Enshittification of Everything: How Product Leaders Can Resist the Rot Economy
The tech industry's obsession with "velocity" has hit a wall, and it’s not the one we expected. While we’ve been busy debating whether AI agents will replace our developers or merely augment them, a …
Fighting the Rot: Why Product Integrity is the Only Hedge Against Enshittification
The term "Enshittification," coined with surgical precision by Cory Doctorow, has moved from a clever observation to a dominant market reality. As we navigate through the early months of 2026, the …
When AI Is Everywhere: Why Leaders Must Choose Judgement Over Control
What if the biggest disruption on the horizon isn’t a new model or breakthrough, but the way people react to intelligence that’s everywhere? That’s the provocative thesis in Barry O’Reilly’s Six …
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The Silicon Workforce: Why 2026 is the Year of Agentic Orchestration, Not Just AI Chat
For decades, we have been conditioned to see software as a set of tools that wait for us. We click a button, the computer responds. We type a prompt, the LLM hallucinates a poem. But a fundamental …