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Why I’m Done Tracking Gartner — and What I’m Focusing on Instead
January 10, 2026
"Gartner is not wrong. They are simply not designed to solve the problem of implementation success in the AI era."
Tech Stack vs. Layer Stack: Why One Fails and One Sustains
January 6, 2026
The tech stack asks: "What can we deploy?" The layer stack asks: "What can they absorb?" Only one survives Year 5.
The Obvious Thing: What 27 Years Taught Me About Success and Failure
January 4, 2026
Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are.
18 Years of New Year Insights: How One Thesis Predicted Every Transformation Failure
January 2, 2026
Technology waves change. The failure pattern doesn't. An 18-year retrospective of one thesis that was never disproved.
Complement, Not Compete: The Phase 0 Complementarity Map
December 29, 2025
Phase 0 doesn't replace your frameworks—it makes them more likely to succeed.
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The Executives Who Fail Aren’t the Ones Who Don’t Know — They’re the Ones Who Can’t Admit It
January 10, 2026
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What are the two smartest things you have ever said? Mine are: "I don't understand" and "Am I missing something?"