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The Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Building a Knowledge Spine
The Missing Layer in Enterprise AI: Building a Knowledge Spine
Most organizations already possess the knowledge they need.
The problem is that nobody can find it.
The answer to today’s difficult service problem might exist in a technic...
Applied AI in the Enterprise
Executive Summary
Applied AI — the discipline of selecting, deploying, and operating AI to solve concrete business problems — has reached a decisive inflection point. Adoption is no longer the bottleneck. According to McKinsey’s November...
A conversation about the War
This is an experiment using ChatGPT where I wanted to guess what Prof Robert Pape will say in his next paid Live Briefing. I think at some point I will add Prof Pape to my list of paid Substack accounts - but right now I am tapped out betwe...
Prediction Machines, Creative Destruction, and the Productivity J-Curve
February 2026
1. The Strategic Choice: What Do You Do with the Gains?
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Companies that successfully deploy AI face a consequential strategic...
Freedom Christmas: When We Must Care for Each Other
Freedom Christmas: When We Must Care for Each Other
My American friends,
There comes a moment in the life of a nation when ordinary people must do what their government cannot—or will not—do. We stand at such a moment now....
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Applied AI for the people who turn the wrenches. Former Army helicopter mechanic, now a Principal Analyst at JLG and writing about structured troubleshooting, knowledge graphs, and ML experiments that have to survive contact with the real world.
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