Tristan Kromer #BlackLivesMatter

I tweet on innovation at scale. 37 accelerators, 6 govs, 11 unis, 24 1B+ corps

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94% of employees know generative AI. 1% of leaders say they're mature on deployment. The payoff isn't there.

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"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes." (Joanna Maciejewska)

Hook the chore, not the craft.

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When your company rolled out an AI tool, did anyone actually use it? Or did people find creative ways to look like they did?

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@WithWoz1 Is there a way to turn of the "thinking" prompts the plugin changes? I'm not enjoying the puns.

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Who Should Own the AI Budget—and Why This Is a Terrible Question – WeAreOutcome https://t.co/YIjSNP1Ilm

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The cheapest way to debug an AI agent is a Latin phrase. When my chief-of-ops agent stops saying _festina lente_, the persona has washed out.

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"A memory the agent has to remember to look up isn't memory." Four design choices separate production agentic memory from a markdown file.

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When your AI agent makes a decision in one session, does it remember WHY next week?

How are you handling memory across agent sessions right now?

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Claude hallucinated that we'd worked for the Austrian Federal Forestry Service. Completely false.\n\nThat's why every fact in our memory system now requires a citation. No source = assertion, not fact.\n\https://t.co/vHkK3Jx3c8

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@davidgu Please stop sending fucking physical spam mail.

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Harvard + Microsoft studied orgs with hundreds of active AI deployments. Productivity gains "remain trapped inside individual workflows." The bottleneck isn't the tech. It's org design. https://t.co/HOWeANSue2

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If your CEO is still presenting AI as a standalone board update... has AI actually changed how your company operates? Or is it still a special project with a slide deck?

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Only 5-6% of companies report significant value from AI despite broad deployment. The gap isn't technology. It's practice. (McKinsey/BCG 2025)

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How we use AI matters more than whether we use it.

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Most of us are using a Ferrari to drive to the mailbox. Six levels of AI adoption, from Bystander to Architect.

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How to Win at Startup Poker https://t.co/8dWRSPvPz8 #StartupPoker

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Completing a 2×2 Risk Prioritization Matrix https://t.co/S6W27WkP7A #RiskPrioritization

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Innovation Ecosystem Design Using Liebig’s Law of the Minimum https://t.co/t2M7rYIssd #InnovationEcosystem

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Lean Tools: How TenTune Harnessed the Power of the Pencil https://t.co/NdTfBuBUIq