Reading the new White House Executive Order on quantum innovation, I found myself thinking about a different question.
What happens when technology expands the space of possible futures faster than humans can navigate it?
AI.
Synthetic biology.
Quantum computing.
Autonomous agents.
Perhaps the defining challenge of the next decade won't be prediction.
It will be navigation.
An absolute highlight from the Agentic AI event in SF, captured through my lens: @dekai123 reframed training AI as a parenting and cultural responsibility.
His talk reminds us that we are literally raising these models through our daily prompts, habits, and clicks.
Honestly, just being in the room at The AI Rabbit Hole 2026 was a trip.
Special thanks to https://t.co/0Kw8Kjrb3p, especially @msdavidova and @Nick_Davidov, to @KuzmaFrost and the entire @ttvMadhats team
Dropping a few photos from the event here. Down the rabbit hole we go ๐
On Brand Sovereignty: Lucas Root, Ph.D hit on a critical truth that handing your marketing entirely over to generic AI strips away your brandโs unique voice. True authority requires keeping that core identity sovereign.
#AIMarketing#AgentIdentity
Spent an incredible, high-signal afternoon at the Agentic AI in Marketing event in SF! Amazing to be part of the ecosystem with the @MedallionXln team.
Instead of the usual AI hype, we talked about how autonomous agents change business and human attention. ๐งต๐
To move a complex system to a new stable state, you must formalize its transition cost first. Stop configuring. Start navigating.
๐ Read my latest Substack piece here:https://t.co/NhX8d6bzLG
Why do 70% of corporate transformations fail, even with flawless strategies and perfect roadmaps?
The flaw isn't in the destination. Itโs in the physics of the journey.
A short thread on why we keep failing at change ๐งต๐
When leaders try to push change by brute force, they drain the system's energy.
The result? Rupture, cynicism, and massive burnout. Not a transformation.
Systems have gravity. An organization is held in place by deep valleys of unwritten rules, habits, and history.
You cannot just "reconfigure" gravity away.
Strategy is great at mapping the "where." But it completely ignores the structural friction of the movement itself.
You aren't just moving people; you are moving a system.
We throw millions at restructuring, changing tools, and rewriting KPIs. We treat organizations like machines where you can just flip a switch.
But it never works. Here is why:
Most corporate transformations stall not because of bad strategy, but because leadership ignores the structural price of the movement itself.
The goal is clear. The strategy is perfect. So why did it fail?
Link in the thread below ๐
When that energy runs out, we don't get transformation, - we get structural rupture and burnout.
To change a system, we must formalize its transition cost first.
Apple just did something nobody expected.
They turned 2 billion iPhones into local AI machines.
They open-sourced coreai-models, the entire toolkit that lets you export any HuggingFace model and run it natively on iPhone, iPad and Mac with zero cloud.
โ Runs 100% on the Neural Engine
โ No cloud. No API keys. No subscriptions.
โ Fully offline. Your data never leaves the device.
It even ships with skills for Claude Code, Codex, and Gemini, so your coding agent already knows how to use it.
100% Open Source.