Onboarding to Innovate
Day one is not for welcoming people. It is for opening the field of possibilities. We often talk about innovation as a matter of labs,
Day one is not for welcoming people. It is for opening the field of possibilities. We often talk about innovation as a matter of labs,
When the Absurd Starts Looking Like an Early Prototype of the Future Saturday of the Absurd: “Skinterface Pro” absurd or futuristic in the world of
The industry applauds LLMs. Yann LeCun is already betting on what comes next. While much of the market is still confusing verbal fluency with general
We have been telling the wrong story For years, companies have been described through a simplistic split. On one side, engineers and technical experts, the
Apple may never have sold only iPhones. What Apple has really sold is a culture. That is exactly what makes the company so compelling as
Reality TV may just have crossed a strange new line. For years, we watched humans perform versions of themselves, amplify their image, script their daily
Two leaders look elegant. Three are often more durable. A leadership duo at the top feels reassuring. It suggests balance, complementary strengths, and a fair
The future was not invented by machines. It was often opened by minds their era was not ready to hear. On March 8, we talk
Saturday of the Absurd How do you tell an image was generated by AI? The trap is simple now: the obvious defects are fading, but
When an “infernal machine” enters a studio, the industry typically reacts in two predictable ways: panic… or dismissal. Panic: “Artists will be replaced.”Dismissal: “It’s just
AI models just sat an exam. And, symbolically, they turned in a blank page. The point isn’t to mock the models. The point is to
The “global peace deal on AI” wasn’t signed at the UN. It played out in a room in New Delhi, during the AI Impact Summit
Everyone knows the moment. A bowl of popcorn. Everything feels right. Warm, crunchy, instantly “movie night” before the movie even starts. Then the irritation arrives.
December 1979, Palo Alto. Steve Jobs walks into Xerox PARC with a small Apple team. This isn’t a standard corporate R&D unit—it’s a future factory.
Monday morning. HR director at an industrial group. Glass meeting room. Lukewarm coffee. PowerPoint: “Employer Attractiveness 2026”. And the sentence, dropped like a verdict:“We can’t
A two-word sentence can trigger a nine-zero decision. “Translate COBOL.” When Anthropic explained how Claude Code could read, analyze, and accelerate COBOL modernization work, part
“This is about your health insurance, your rates are going to increase…” You pick up. By reflex. By fatigue. By conditioning. And you feel the
In 1939 at the University of California, Berkeley, a PhD student arrives late to a statistics class. On the blackboard: two problems. He copies them,
Until now, water was a network problem. Pipes, plants, pumping stations, standards—an infrastructure promise. And like every infrastructure promise, it’s solid… until the day it
A child grows. Their clothes panic. So does your budget. Every growth spurt triggers the same ritual: drawers that suddenly feel too small, “emergency” purchases,