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 …
The Great AI Sobriety Test: Why 2026 is the Year of Pragmatic Product Leadership
The "party" of brute-force scaling is winding down, and the industry is finally starting to sober up. For the past few years, the dominant narrative for CEOs and Product Leaders was simply "bigger is …
The Invisible Web: Why Distinctiveness is the Only Antidote to the AI Squeeze
For more than twenty-five years, I’ve watched technology cycles move from the "magic" phase to the "utility" phase, and finally, to what Cory Doctorow famously termed "enshittification." We saw it …