How technology is changing the way we build and operate — without the hype.
Everyone’s worried about AI taking jobs. They’re asking the wrong question. Most of what we call work — synthesis, comparison, formatting, gathering data from six places — isn’t thinking. It’s assembly. And we’ve been doing it with the most expensive tool in the company: our brains. AI didn’t take my investor reports or financial prep. It freed me from work that was never meant for a human in the first place.
I haven’t touched code in 25 years. I just built six production apps that replaced subscriptions, cut hours of weekly work, and kept our dev team focused on the platform. The excuse that you’re not technical just expired.
Building custom software for your exact needs is now faster and cheaper than subscribing to platforms built for everyone. Generic software is dying because you can build exactly what you need in days, not months—and keep it only as long as it’s useful.
AI isn’t a destination but a service layer that will fade into the background of how business works.
With AI and operations, your answer will only be as good as your own experience.
Data has been called the new oil but given that oil is used by all but controlled by few, we need to rethink this analogy. Data should be like electricity.
