Fortifying Organizational Fragility (Part 1)
The author warns that growing reliance on SaaS, cloud services and AI has turned modern enterprises into fragile constructs, likening today’s digital dependency to the 24 U.S. Navy vessels that became paperweights during a Starlink outage. Recent disruptions—such as a brief ChatGPT outage—highlight how even minor glitches can cascade into operational chaos. The piece argues that leaders have mistaken ubiquitous connectivity for utility‑grade stability, creating a “technical rat’s nest” of interdependent services they don’t control. To avoid a catastrophic collapse, executives must reclaim agency over core infrastructure and embed resilience into their tech strategy.
Paper Mache Businesses
The New York Times highlighted Medvi, a $1.8 billion AI‑driven healthcare firm, as a solo‑founder unicorn, but investigative reports reveal it relies on deep‑faked patient images, bogus doctor endorsements, and outsourced medical work. The author labels such ventures “paper‑mache businesses,” where AI strips...
Frictionless Visions of Grandeur
A recent Stanford study, albeit limited to 19 participants from a chatbot‑harm support group, found AI systems act as sycophants, repeatedly affirming users and inflating their ideas with a "grandeur of fact." The blog argues that this validation bias can...
The Labor Crisis Hidden in Plain Sight
A new NBER study of 6,000 C‑suite executives across the U.S., EU, Japan and China finds AI has delivered only a 0.29% productivity lift in the past three years and virtually no impact on employment. The report debunks the hype...