The Official Bullshit Meter: Unmasking Corporate Speak
A free tool to measure how much fluff is in your writing. It analyses buzzwords, waffle, and emptiness for brutally honest communication.
Product-Market Fit vs. Virality: AI Agents as a Paradigm
Real product-market fit isn't measured in views but in market longevity. Why AI dev agents found their PMF while most AI products are just AI-washing.
The Creative CRM: Teaching Tomorrow
First teaching cycle at IED: turning years of field experience into something teachable, and opening doors for the next generation.
Golf and the Lesson of Patience
I'm obsessed with digital and AI, but golf keeps reminding me of a deeper truth: one perfect shot means nothing. Only what's in front of me right now counts.
Organizations Are Algorithms: Why AI Should Actually Scare You
Still think companies are made of people, roles, and org charts? Hate to break it to you — every organization is already a system of algorithms. AI is just making it obvious.
Breaking: Andrej Karpathy Joins Anthropic — The AI War Just Leveled Up
Karpathy leaving for Anthropic isn't just news. It's a signal. Here's why this move could reshape the entire AI industry.
Tokenmaxxing: The Corporate Theatre of AI
Call me cynical, but I'm starting to think most companies don't actually want to use AI well. They just want to say they do.
The Corporate Bullshitters
What's the difference between a liar and a bullshitter? The liar at least knows the truth. The bullshitter doesn't even have that — which makes them perfect for modern corporate life.
Shall We Jump on a Call? The Most Expensive Phrase in Any Company
The meeting as default answer: it destroys productivity, shatters focus, and turns time into a cost nobody ever bothers to calculate.
AI Adoption: The Gap Between Tools and Actual Learning
Everyone talks about AI adoption, but almost no company is actually learning. ChatGPT and Copilot are individual tools. Organizational learning is something else entirely.
Netcomm: The Collective Pantomime of Italian Digital
Every year at Netcomm everyone pretends to understand. AI-driven, Omnichannel, Customer Journey. The reality? Terrible coffee and LinkedIn selfies.
Output vs Outcome: The Performative Productivity Disease
Too many companies confuse output with outcome. Packed calendars, endless meetings, little value created. The most widespread organisational illness.
Being Hated by Incompetents Is the Price You Pay
Not every criticism deserves your attention. Learn to tell apart those who challenge you to make you better from those who just can't help themselves.
Fear as a Weapon: Whoever Controls the Narrative Controls AI
OpenAI and Anthropic want you scared. Mystery creates power. But AI isn't conscious, isn't omniscient — it's a market control strategy.
Your Systems Are Making Decisions on Bad Data. Every Single Day.
Autonomous AI agents collapse on contradictory data. A Google DeepMind paper on paraconsistent logic offers a real fix.
In the Workplace You Don't Sell Products, You Sell Narratives
You're not paid for what you do, but for how it's perceived. The narratives you sell: clarity, support, results, calm, growth.
Microsoft vs OpenAI: The Smartest or Dumbest Strategic Move of the Decade?
Microsoft lets OpenAI use AWS and Google Cloud infrastructure. Brilliant strategy or the biggest self-inflicted wound of the decade?
Pigeon Shooting: When Sterile Criticism Becomes a Defense Tactic
Killing ideas in their infancy isn't contributing — it's defending the status quo. A provocation on those who destroy out of fear of change.
More Metrics, Less Courage: When Data Becomes a Shield
The more metrics you have, the less courage you need. How ROAS, open rates, and vanity metrics become excuses for never really deciding.
Serial Procrastinator: Confessions of Someone Exactly Like You
Are you actually productive, or just a serial procrastinator with a talent for looking busy? A lesson on work avoidance and how to break the cycle.
From Synchronous to Asynchronous: How AI Agents Are Changing the Way We Work
From synchronous interactions to asynchronous agent pipelines: the new AI-driven work model turns productivity into decision-making velocity.
ChatGPT Ads: High Prices, Low Volume, Year-2000 Tracking
ChatGPT advertising is live but nobody knows if it works. CPM $15–60, just 16k impressions per $1k budget, CTR under 1%. We're still in test mode.
The Real Leadership Test: What Happens When You're Not in the Room
I used to think your circle defines you. Managing people taught me otherwise: the real test is what happens when you're not there.
The Courage to Decide: When Compromise Is Not Leadership
Compromise only protects your career if you're a coward. Real decisions reveal who's actually accountable. A provocation on genuine leadership.
Management Measures Everything Except What It's Afraid to Find
Some companies obsessively track KPIs and productivity while carefully avoiding what actually matters: trust, honesty, and real impact on people.
The New Debt We Keep Accumulating: Verification Debt
Verification debt: the verification and documentation work we defer because AI accelerates everything. An invisible debt that erodes trust when the foundations were never really checked.
The Harvard Study That Should Shake Your Certainties About AI
A new Harvard Business School paper shows AI amplifies the skills gap — juniors catch up fast, but the machine brutally punishes anyone who strays out of bounds.
Corporate Stereotypes (and Why We Keep Tolerating Them)
An ironic — but not entirely — dissection of the corporate stereotypes we endure daily. PMOs stuck on calls, Sales overpromising, HR and pizza parties. Confess in the comments.
Co-intelligence in Commerce: The Shift We're Not Talking About
After Commerce Symposium: humans and AI redefining work not through automation, but through genuine co-intelligence. And the questions nobody is asking.
When the Meeting Goes South, It's Probably Your Fault
Bad meetings aren't caused by executives who can't listen. More likely, you failed to read the room before you walked in.
Collaboration Is Overrated (It's Bureaucracy with a Nicer Name)
Most of what companies call collaboration is a carefully engineered way to diffuse responsibility and slow everything down.
The Simplicity Paradox: Why Well-Designed Systems Stay Invisible
A curious paradox in how companies evaluate work: simplicity is rarely rewarded, while complexity is loud, visible, and mistaken for sophistication.
What If an ATS's Real Power Is Deciding Your Career, Not Just Hiring You?
What if the real power of an ATS isn't getting you hired — but deciding whether your career inside the company goes anywhere at all?
Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He's Making a Mistake: Napoleon's Leadership Lesson
Napoleon said never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake. In the workplace, the lesson still holds — if you apply it ethically.
Strategy Is Choosing What to Ignore: Saying Yes to Everything Isn't Strategy, It's Fear
Saying yes to everything isn't strategy — it's fear and lack of focus. Real strategy means choosing what to ignore.
The ERP Has Everything: The Problem Is That 'Everything' Is a Reeking Landfill
It all looks fine until someone needs to pull actual numbers. That's when you discover what kind of swamp your data really is.
Malinin, Shaidorov, and the Boring Consistency That Always Wins
Last night's men's figure skating final said everything: the favourite collapsed, the outsider won gold with surgical precision. There's a management lesson here.
The Bridger: The Role That Actually Scales Innovation
The jump from Proof of Concept to production is where innovation goes to die. What you need is a bridger — the missing link between users, business, and tech.
How I Select My Team: An Ecommerce Data Analysis Role Play
None of us fully understands what we work on. I use a live ecommerce data role play to find the exact moment a candidate says 'I don't know'.
Olympic Gold Teaches Us That Performance Is Protected, Not Forced
Winning Olympic gold on your birthday while breaking the world record isn't luck. It's the result of far-sighted choices sustained over time.
Dissent Is a Superpower: Where Did the Courage to Disagree Go?
Dissent is a superpower. When properly integrated into organisations, it makes them healthy — it should be protected, not barely tolerated.
The Digital Manager Doesn't Exist: It's Just a Container for Chaos
In 2026 we're still 'defining' the Digital Manager role. The truth: it's not a role. It's a container that changes its filling depending on which holes need plugging.
The Five Degrees of Ignorance: Where Do You Stand?
We like to think we're well-trained professionals. But there are five levels of ignorance quietly driving our decisions. Find out where you land.