Last week, Uber's CEO went on a podcast and said something that executives almost never say in public. He admitted that he has personally heard leaders privately acknowledge the true scale of AI disruption, and then watched those same people go on television and tell audiences that everything will work out fine. His own estimate: AI will replace the work of 70 to 80 percent of humans in knowledge jobs within this decade. The same week, the US CEO of PwC told the Financial Times that any...
13 days ago • 3 min read
The firms you spent your career inside are about to have a very bad decade. For 30 years, professional services ran on one model: smart people billing hours. The more complex the problem, the more hours it took, the more the client paid. Your entire career was built on this logic. Your compensation, your promotions, your sense of professional value, all of it tied to how many hours your expertise could justify. AI just broke that equation. When a project that used to take a team 10 hours can...
20 days ago • 4 min read
Last Tuesday, Atlassian fired 1,600 people. That is roughly 10% of the entire company. More than half of them were engineers. The reason they gave was simple: AI. This was not a struggling company. Atlassian's cloud revenue hit over a billion dollars last quarter, up 26% year over year. They are growing, profitable, and doing well by every financial measure that matters. The stock went up on the news. Let that sit for a moment. The market rewarded them for cutting 1,600 jobs. Just like it...
27 days ago • 4 min read
Last month, OpenAI closed the largest private funding round in history. $110 billion. Amazon alone put in $50 billion. Nvidia added $30 billion. The valuation hit $840 billion. Then, quietly, in the same week, OpenAI admitted something that should have gotten far more attention than it did. They said AI has not actually penetrated enterprise business processes. Not "has not fully penetrated." Has not penetrated. Their words. Despite the funding, the headlines, the breathless LinkedIn posts...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Last week, Jack Dorsey laid off nearly 4,000 people at Block. Not because the company was struggling. Revenue was fine. Growth was fine. He said a smaller team, using AI, could do more and do it better. The stock jumped 24%. That same week, the person who built Claude Code at Anthropic said in an interview that he hasn't written a single line of code by hand since November. AI writes all of it. He traced the curve: in February it handled 20% of his work, by May 30%, by November 100%. Eight...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
A few weeks before I left my corporate role, I had lunch with a colleague who told me I was making the biggest mistake of my life. "You have a title, a team, a salary most people would kill for. Why would you walk away from that?" I didn't have a clean answer at the time. I just knew that something had shifted and that the ground under my feet wasn't as solid as it looked from the outside. That conversation comes back to me every time I see another headline about AI replacing white-collar...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
A few months ago, I watched a colleague of mine, a former managing director at a consulting firm, build something in a single afternoon that would have taken his old team three months and a six-figure budget. He sat in an airport lounge with a laptop and three AI tools open. By the time he landed, he had a fully functional client assessment model, complete with scoring logic, weighted variables, a strategy brief, and an implementation workbook. The kind of deliverable his former firm would...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
This week, Wall Street panicked. Traders are calling it the "SaaS Apocalypse," a two-day sell-off that erased over $300 billion in enterprise software value. HubSpot is down 39% year-to-date. LegalZoom dropped 20%. Thomson Reuters fell 16%. The catalyst was Anthropic's release of AI agent plugins for legal and sales workflows. Investors suddenly realized something that should matter deeply to you: AI agents don't need software seats. And increasingly, they don't need large teams either. A JP...
2 months ago • 4 min read
I was speaking with a peer recently about the invisible weight we carry after decades in the corporate world. He shared the story of a close friend, a man who gave thirty-five years of his life to a global consumer goods giant. Thirty-five years of loyalty. Thirty-five years of being the person with all the answers. Then, the reorg happened. He spent the next two years in a deep depression. He lived in a cycle of refreshing his inbox only to find silence or another automated rejection. This...
2 months ago • 2 min read