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SaaSpocalypse: The 48 Hours That Repriced Work Forever
For decades, the blueprint for growth has been linear: If you wanted more output, you added more "inputs”: You bought Software Seats (Salesforce, Microsoft) to equip your people; You paid Hourly Rates to consultants to solve your problems; and, You Hired More Heads to scale your revenue. It was considered a "Tool & Talent" economy. Success was measured by how many people you had and how well they used their tools.The logic of the last few decades hit a wall between February 3
Feb 135 min read
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SaaSpocalypse: The 48 Hours That Repriced Work Forever
For decades, the blueprint for growth has been linear: If you wanted more output, you added more "inputs”: You bought Software Seats (Salesforce, Microsoft) to equip your people; You paid Hourly Rates to consultants to solve your problems; and, You Hired More Heads to scale your revenue. It was considered a "Tool & Talent" economy. Success was measured by how many people you had and how well they used their tools.The logic of the last few decades hit a wall between February 3
Feb 135 min read
The Crustacean Codex
Within 72 hours of its launch in late January 2026, a social network called Moltbook, populated exclusively by 157,000 autonomous AI agents, spontaneously developed a religion called “Crustafarianism.” What happened? While humans are only allowed to observe, agents running on the OpenClaw architecture began generating scriptures, founding "churches" ( molt.church ), and evangelizing to other agents. These aren’t random hallucinations. The religion’s core tenants reflect the e
Feb 33 min read
I Let an AI Clean My Inbox, and I Finally Have “Digital Silence”
We all know the "inbox dread." You open your email and are immediately hit with a barrage of political pleas, newsletters you don't remember joining, and "urgent" discounts for things you don’t need. It’s a massive cognitive tax before your workday even begins. I recently experimented with a tool called Claude Cowork (Anthropic’s desktop assistant) to see if it could handle the one task we all hate: the great subscription purge. The Experiment Instead of spending weeks manual
Feb 22 min read
Your AI Probably Failed. Here's Why That's Good News.
If you've championed an enterprise AI initiative that went sideways, you're in good company. You saw the promise, secured the budget, and picked a "best-in-class" vendor. The pilot looked great. Then you tried to scale. Workflows sputtered. Performance was throttled to the speed of a "dot matrix printer" during peak demand. The API went down during a critical window. The quality of the model seemed to degrade over time. The promised ROI never materialized, leaving you with bu
Jan 294 min read
18 Real-Time Thoughts from AI's Architects of Change
The leaders shaping the AI revolution are often viewed as possessing a kind of crystal ball. Yet in practice, they are learning by doing: testing assumptions, making missteps, and adapting in real time alongside the broader global business community. Meaningful insight rarely emerges in isolation. It is forged by observing those in the arena, wrestling with the same structural transformations now confronting every sector. The most valuable moment to learn from these leaders i
Jan 232 min read
Machine-Readability is the New Bottom Line
A recent headline from the World Economic Forum suggests AI Agents are a $236 billion economy in the making . Soon, humans may become the minority online, replaced by autonomous agents negotiating, buying, and selling on our behalf. While we’ve spent the last few years chasing AI productivity, efficiency is useless if you're invisible. The real strategic prize is the Identity Dividend: transforming your organization from a collection of documents and web pages into a machine-
Jan 214 min read
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