I've spent twenty years telling people to make time for innovation. Last week, in front of a room I love teaching, I finally saw the flaw in the advice.

The chief AI officer of Logitech texted me a list of my AI tells. My first instinct was exactly wrong.

Stand on a Manhattan street corner in 1900 and try to predict Jamba Juice.

The most important KPI of the AI era is one you've never heard of — because I made it up. It's called TTFS, nobody's dashboard tracks it, and yours is probably way too high.

I heard it inside the Fort Knox of plutonium, from some of the smartest engineers alive: "AI is just not there yet." Here's what that sentence actually costs.

A reader wrote the same report twice — once with plain ChatGPT, once with his Teammate Stack. Same person, same AI model, same task. Only one of them sounded like him.

He had a tattoo that said "Call me a baby because dolphins make me cry." He also said he'd pour hot oil on a kitchen robot to keep his job. I met him because I turned down Dave Grohl to hold a sign in Washington Square. Here's what I learned.

The prompt before the prompt is noticing what deserves attention.

I asked my AI chief of staff to read 50 pre-event transcripts and write the FAQ I'd been avoiding for months. It took three minutes.

Andrej Karpathy hasn't typed a line of code since December. That sentence has a blank in it — fill it with your word, and something shifts.

A 40% quality boost, available to anyone. Taken up by fewer than 3% of the workforce (and that number is going down, not up). At Wharton this week, I accidentally said the thing that explains why.

AI can make you 100x more productive at work, and make being present at home feel 100x more expensive. That tension isn’t just personal weakness. It’s a new economic reality.

I'd been stuck for weeks — not because the technology wasn't available, but because I hadn't thought to ask. I've started calling these 'wherewithal moments.' They're hard to manufacture. But they compound.

Most leaders think credibility comes from having all the answers. In the AI era, it's the opposite—credibility comes from admitting you don't know and doing something about it. Here's how to become the kind of leader who can actually drive organizational change instead of just demanding it.

Special guest post by Brendan Boyle, one of Stanford’s most beloved professors, acclaimed toy inventor, and founder of IDEO’s Toy Lab. He’s taught me more about play than anyone other than my own children.

A recent study by American Management Association revealed that 58% of professionals feel "behind" in their AI adoption journey. While most folks know me as "the Beyond the Prompt guy," here's what you might not know: I struggle with this stuff too.

Still waiting on other people before you tap AI? Big mistake. This post exposes the silent tax of “AI inaction,” hands you the five‑rung ladder for turning any model into your on‑call mentor, and launches a seven‑day sprint that will hard‑wire the habit—so you can seize the advantage while everyone else is still scheduling meetings.

Deeply practical guest post by former NCAA and NFL punter, now tech executive, Zoltán Meskó. I met Zoltán at Stanford’s annual Campbell Trophy Summit last summer, and he stayed in touch, telling me all the cool stuff he was trying - check out how AI is changing the way he works.

"I don't really have any pain points to automate," a CEO told me during an AI workshop last week. "I don't do repetitive work like other people in the company do."

Then he mentioned how he spends six hours manually editing every report his team sends him… I had to stop him right there.

There’s only one right answer to the question, “Did AI help with this?” The shift to an AI-first mindset isn't just about saving time. It's about recognizing a fundamental truth: AI isn't a tool you might want to use. It's an amplifier you'd be reckless not to use.