Shipping is where the work starts
Go-live is treated as the finish line. It is the starting line. Most pilots do not die at launch, they die quietly in the months after, because the day they went live they became nobody's job.
Essays
An essay goes up when an advisory conversation surfaces a question worth two thousand words. Not on a schedule, and never to fill space.
The EU AI Act, in plain terms
The regulation is long, and most of the fear around it is misplaced. For almost any organisation the practical question is small: which tier are you in, and what does that actually require of you?
Most AI advice can't be wrong
A lot of what you are told about AI is built so that nothing could ever prove it false. That is not insight. It is trend-following in a suit, and there is a simple test for it.
A demo is not a system
Almost every AI pilot demos beautifully, and only about one in twenty ever reaches production. The distance between those two facts is where the work actually lives.
AI adoption is a management problem, not a model problem
The failure numbers keep getting blamed on data and models. Read them closely and the same gap shows up every time: nobody owns what happens after the pilot.
What This Is
Why I write about proof rather than prediction, and what I will and will not put on this site.
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