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Been a management consultant for 20 years. Made Partner in my 30s. Led teams of 100+ people. Run 9-figure client portfolios. Lived and worked in 4 continents. Typically, corporate IT investment would follow a common script. Capital spent on software means a shrinking payroll.

I know it's hard to believe but I've been exploring Turkey for the past few days with family and not even once I thought about AI Agentic frameworks. The only mythos I discussed is what I've seen at the Archeological Museum in Istanbul. Heard exactly zero people talking about

When in Turkey

At the Archeological Museum in Istanbul... The best thing is to unleash a 8 year old with Gemini and let her learn! 3 hours in, not done yet 😱

#2 and #3 are always the correct take, #1 can be right but also wrong. It is a balance. People assume they have a lot of time to one day finally "make it" and continuously push to the right the moment when they'll finally earn the comp they deserve. Yes, the "slope" of the

1990s Italy

Those fine people shouting from the rooftops with peculiar assertiveness that "all white collar jobs will be cooked within 12 months" should simply read more and learn from history

By the way, this is the very essence of consulting, and precisely why at every technology shift the amount of experts formed and deployed across organisations has increased. Technology is designed and shipped to fix problems, but inherent to that fact is another fact... As you

When I left Italy at 22 to move to the UK, i thought I'd be back home "within a couple of years". Instead, I started a 20-year journey working (and adapting) across the globe. I was forever and everywhere an immigrant. At one point, I found myself living in Hong Kong,

AI or not AI, when I write the skeleton of a proposal, I don't focus on my unique selling points, but I like to talk about *unique configuration* of how we work in 3 steps: 1) What's the common logic? Explicitly state how the industry usually solves the problem. 2) What's the

Lots of talking about Scrum Masters, but remember the mid-2010s corporate gold rush? Before everyone was an AI Evangelist, they were an Agile Coach! They arrived in tailored blazers, armed with millions of colorful Post-it notes and a hypnotic promise: "We are going to help

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A 55-year old man wrote this piece of nonsense.

"Confidentially"

When I receive an email patently written by Copilot, my respect for the sender instinctively decreases. Why do you need AI to write an email FFS??!!!?!

I just read a newsletter with 41K subscribers and the thing was entirely written by a LLM, like the syntactical patterns were too obviously LLMy... I'm developing like a nauseating reflex to that type of writing.

Do you remember the Mechanical Turk? The platform that proved you could atomize certain jobs into microwork? The more complex the job, the more those small tasks needed to be embedded in context: something no platform could fully capture without rebuilding the very structure

I will never say this enough: people have the natural tendency to build a "solution" and then go looking for a problem. This is even more true now with AI allowing anyone with half a brain to come up with "tools"... How can you not see this is the wrong way around? Every

Learning a language is a performative activity for a lot of people. It's a time-waster. A hobby. I won't lie... Duolingo has huge responsibilities there imho. If you think you can actually learn a new language by following a talking bird and clicking on animals appearing