Short pieces on designing organizations for volatility. Each one first appeared on LinkedIn.
iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 started rolling out today. The headline is a rebuilt Siri. The useful fact is where it runs. For three years, most “AI strategy” has meant a cloud API, a token budget, and a hope…
Organizations can no longer treat disruption as separate events to manage one by one. Here are some "rules" for your consideration. Don’t confuse cutting people with creating AI productivity. Gartner…
That Is the Anti-Fragile Move. This week’s tech news is not really about a foldable phone or another model launch. It is about where intelligence will live. OpenAI is deepening work with Samsung on…
The harder work is designing the operating model so the organization can actually use that flexibility when conditions change. Most companies will still lock themselves in—through exclusive vendor…
It is a protected-core story. The flight-processing system at Swanwick faulted this afternoon. By evening more than a thousand UK flights were cancelled. Some of that was the outage. Some of that was…
As AI absorbs more routine cognitive work, the human edge doesn’t disappear. It concentrates. It shifts toward judgment under ambiguity, learning velocity, coordination across functions, and the…
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok confirmed outages. Gemini showed a spike in user reports. That overlap is rare. It is also a design review. We still treat frontier AI as electricity: always on, always…
Imagine a sales team using AI to qualify inbound leads, summarize discovery calls, and draft follow-up emails. If their entire workflow depends on one AI provider, an outage doesn’t just mean…
Here's the latest from my home town. San Antonio’s Storm Outage: A Local Lesson in Anti-Fragility Friday night’s storms were not subtle. My dog freaked out. High winds dropped poles, lines, and trees…
But another major disruption is already on the horizon: quantum computing. “Q-Day”—the point when sufficiently powerful quantum computers could break much of today’s encryption—may still be years…
So fun to be working with him again.
Clear example of antifragile design. Plan options for rare but impactful events.
