I notice there is new AI tool worth trying almost every week, or is it everyday? Wait, did I just miss a new one while writing this post? Seems like it! The pace is relentless, and it is not slowing down. I have written about working at the speed of thought, where capability shows up faster than any of us can absorb it. For any organization, that pace creates a quiet problem. You cannot, and should not, adopt every tool. You certainly cannot vet every tool. There is no practical way to track them all. And while leadership debates which ones matter, something is already happening on the … [Continue reading]
Working at the Speed of Thought
May 5, 2026 By Leave a Comment
Right now as I'm writing this post, I am running four tasks in parallel, five if you count this writing workstream. Not one after another, the way I used to work. All four, simultaneously, moving forward while I am thinking about and doing something else entirely. One involves code. One is a document taking shape. Two are in the idea-and-iteration stage, where questions are coming back to me faster than I can process (that is a whole other post). I check in, answer a question, redirect the thread, and move on. The work keeps going without me. After this post I jump into a workstream only I … [Continue reading]
Copilot in Notebooks are the Easy Part. AI Governance is the Real Rollout Project
April 16, 2026 By Leave a Comment
Microsoft shipped associated identities for Fabric items last week. On April 30th, Copilot and AI capabilities expand to every paid Fabric SKU down to F2. Multi-agent orchestration in Copilot Studio just went GA with native Fabric integration. And the March update gave notebooks native Copilot abilities to diagnose execution failures, suggest fixes, and generate code against your Lakehouse schema with full metadata awareness. That is a lot of new capability hitting a lot of new surfaces in a very short window. I am telling you this not as a recap. I am telling you this because I work in … [Continue reading]
The Best Thing Falcon Does Is Not Think
April 14, 2026 By Leave a Comment
My first interaction with my OpenClaw instance, Falcon, cost me five dollars. I.e. my hello world conversation. That was eye-opening. I turned on OpenClaw, typed "Hi," and started asking basic questions about what was possible. Just getting oriented. Within minutes I'd burned through credits on what amounted to small talk. That was the moment I realized this wasn't going to work the way I expected. I had assumed the magic was the conversation. Talk to your agent, tell it what to do, and watch it handle things. That's the promise, and honestly, that promise is what drew me to OpenClaw in … [Continue reading]
Part 3 of 3: The Already Conscious Problem
March 30, 2026 By 1 Comment
Why the Real Danger Has Nothing to Do With AI Waking Up If you've been following along with parts one and two of this series, here's the quick recap. Part one: tl;dr; AI is not conscious. It's a brain in a jar surrounded by plumbing. It lacks … [Continue reading]
Part 2 of 3: Synthetic Consciousness
March 29, 2026 By Leave a Comment
A Better Way to Talk About What AI Actually Is, and Where the Trajectory Might Lead If you missed part one of this series, I'd encourage you to start there. tl;dr; I made the case that AI is not conscious. Not because AI is dumb (it isn't), … [Continue reading]
Part 1 of 3: A Brain in a Jar – AI Isn’t Conscious
March 28, 2026 By Leave a Comment
If you've been anywhere near tech news over the past few months, you've noticed something unusual happening. The conversation about AI has shifted. We're no longer just debating whether AI will take our jobs or write better code than we can. We've … [Continue reading]
I Run OpenClaw. Here’s What I Hope Microsoft Gets Right.
March 24, 2026 By Leave a Comment
A few days ago, Omar Shahine posted an announcement on LinkedIn that caught my attention. He announced his new job at Microsoft! His mission? Bring OpenClaw and personal AI agents to Microsoft 365! His TL;DR is that Microsoft just made a Corporate … [Continue reading]
Part 2: Is OpenClaw Everything AI Promises to Be? Here’s Why It Actually Proves Suleyman Wrong.
February 16, 2026 By Leave a Comment
If you missed part one of this series, I'd encourage you to start there. The short version: Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, recently predicted that most white-collar professional tasks will be fully automated within 12 to 18 months. I argued that … [Continue reading]
Part 1: AI Will Replace White-Collar Work in 18 Months? Let’s Talk About That.
February 13, 2026 By Leave a Comment
If you've been anywhere near a tech news, you've probably seen the headlines. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, dropped what I'd say is quite a bombshell in a recent interview with the Financial Times, claiming that AI will achieve human-level … [Continue reading]
