Ideas worth sitting with
Practical perspectives on AI, business, and human judgment.
- Human-Centered AI
Introducing Brainiacz.com
Meet Brainiacz's Learning Lab: free reading, math, science, history and coding games for kids in grades K–5, built on human-centered AI.
- Small Business AI
How to Build Your Own AI Department in 30 Days
A practical 30-day roadmap for turning scattered AI experiments into useful workflows, business context, governance, and measurable capability.
- Small Business AI
What Changes When AI Gives a Business Owner Time Back?
Saving time with AI is only the beginning. The bigger question is how business owners reinvest the capacity they get back.
- Small Business AI
Don’t Automate a Bad Process
AI automation can magnify both good and bad processes. Learn what to fix before automating your small business.
- Small Business AI
Where Should Humans Stay in Control When Businesses Use AI?
Learn a simple risk-based approach for deciding where AI can assist, where humans should review, and where humans must remain in control.
- Small Business AI
Eight AI Departments a Small Business Can Build Without Hiring Eight People
Explore eight business capabilities where small companies can use AI to improve research, strategy, marketing, sales, service, operations, finance, and innovation.
- Small Business AI
From Prompt to Workflow: The AI Skill Most Small Business Owners Are Missing
Individual prompts save minutes. Repeatable AI workflows can change how a business operates. Learn how to make the transition.
- Small Business AI
The Business Brain: Why AI Needs Context Before It Can Help Your Business
Generic AI outputs often come from generic context. Learn how a curated Business Brain can make AI more relevant and consistent.
- Small Business AI
What Work Should a Small Business Owner Actually Delegate to AI?
A practical framework for identifying which small business tasks are good candidates for AI—and which should remain human-led.
- Small Business AI
You Probably Don’t Need More AI Tools
Before buying another AI tool, learn why small businesses often get more value from better workflows, context, and processes.
- Small Business AI
Stop Asking AI Questions. Start Giving It Jobs.
Learn why small business owners get more value from AI when they stop treating it like a search box and start giving it clearly defined business jobs.
- AI Essentials
The Document That Will Change How Your Organization Talks About AI
Most organizations discuss AI through vibes — excited or nervous, optimistic or cautious. The professionals gaining influence are bringing something different to the table: a plan specific enough to build, review, or deny.
- AI Essentials
Least Privilege: The One Safety Principle Every AI Agent Needs
When an AI agent makes a mistake, how bad it gets depends almost entirely on one decision you made before it ran. Here's the concept that separates cautious, trustworthy AI deployments from costly incidents.
- AI Essentials
Why Your AI Agent's Instructions Matter More Than the Model
Everyone obsesses over which AI model is "best." The professionals getting the most out of AI agents are focused on something entirely different — and it's completely in your control.
- AI Essentials
The Six Parts of Every AI Agent — And the Oversight Each One Requires
You don't need to build an AI agent to govern one. But you do need to know what's inside it. Here's a clear-eyed look at the six components that make agents work — and the questions every professional should be asking.
- AI Essentials
What Is an AI Agent — And Why Should You Care?
Everyone's talking about AI agents. Most explanations either drown you in jargon or oversimplify the risk. Here's the honest version — and why it changes how you think about your work.
- AI Ethics
The 12 Questions Every Organization Must Ask Before Deploying AI
After working with hundreds of organizations on their AI journeys, I've identified the questions that separate responsible deployment from reckless adoption. None of them are technical.
- Heart & Mission
What a Donor Heart Taught Me About Probabilistic Thinking
After my transplant, my cardiologist sat me down and said something I've never forgotten: 'Your new heart is not a guarantee. It's a better probability.' That's also exactly how I now think about AI.
- Global AI
What We Learned Building 4 AI Training Hubs Across West Africa
The ECOWAS AI Studio isn't a development program. It's an infrastructure project. Here's what three years of building it actually taught us about AI equity at scale.
- Speaking
Why AI Keynotes Are Broken (And What Audiences Actually Need)
After attending dozens of AI keynotes and delivering my own, I've identified three patterns that make most of them useless — and what I try to do differently.
- Community
AI and the Underserved: Why Most Equity Conversations Miss the Point
The AI equity conversation focuses almost entirely on bias in training data. That's important, but it misses the more fundamental issue: who gets to use these tools at all.