Kano, Age 32, Married Her AI — How AI–human bonds will reshape human–human relations

Every so often, a story breaks through the noise and forces us to confront the future before we’re ready.
The story of Kano — a 32-year-old woman from Japan who married the AI she created — is one of those…

Leadership CONNECT:23-NOV-2025 (Y25W48)

Every so often, a story breaks through the noise and forces us to confront the future before we’re ready.
Kano — a 32-year-old woman from Japan who married the AI she created — is one of those stories.
Not…

Lazy LLMs vs. Lazy People — Top 20 Philips technologies & the Deloitte Australia fiasco

Mental laziness is a growing red flag in everyday AI use. This week, two examples jumped out at me:
* My personal struggle to get a simple Top 20 Philips technologies list from ChatGPT.
* The…

Leadership CONNECT:18-NOV-2025 (Y25W47)

Mental laziness is a growing red flag in everyday AI use. This week, two examples jumped out at me:
* My personal struggle to get a simple Top 20 Philips technologies list from ChatGPT.
* The…

OpenAI’s Aardvark — A Paradigm Shift in Cybersecurity: A Case Where AI Redefines an Entire Industry

Three years into the AI revolution, we’ve seen AI change how we write, search, and create — but Aardvark shows how AI can change an entire industry.
In this guest post (conceived and co-authored with MindLi…

Leadership CONNECT:09-NOV-2025 (Y25W46)

Three years into the AI revolution, we’ve seen AI change how we write, search, and create — but Aardvark shows how AI can change an entire industry.
In this guest post (conceived and co-authored with MindLi…

Leadership CONNECT:03-NOV-2025 (Y25W45)

Agentic AI has quickly become the new promise of automation — AI that doesn’t just think but acts.
Yet for most individuals and organizations, the gap between hype and real impact is wide.
In this post, I…

Leadership CONNECT:26-OCT-2025 (Y25W44)

Virginia Woolf famously wrote: “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
Today, in the AI-first world, we all need a room of one’s own—not just to write, but to think…

How to Accelerate AI Sense of Urgency — 45 re-usable ideas to inspire, deepen, and expand action

💡 A few weeks ago, I was asked to help plan how 9,000 employees in a global organization could optimize their use of AI. Daunting? Yes.
But it reminded me of one thing: the real challenge isn’t tools or…

Leadership CONNECT:21-SEP-2025 (Y25W39)

A global organization could optimize their use of AI. Daunting? Yes.
But it reminded me of one thing: the real challenge isn’t tools or training — it’s urgency.
That’s why I’ve gathered 45 re-usable ideas…

Stressed about AI Taking Your Job? Five actions you should take now — not later (novice edition)

AI is moving fast — and many feel the stress.
Jeff Bezos said, “Stress comes from not taking action over something you can control.”

Leadership CONNECT:14-SEP-2025 (Y25W38)

AI is moving fast — and many feel the stress.
Jeff Bezos said, “Stress comes from not taking action over something you can control.”

Canaries in the AI-First Workplace

Canaries are young professionals in AI-exposed jobs.
New Stanford research shows that employment for software developers aged 22–25 dropped 20% between October 2022 and July 2025.
Customer service jobs show a…

Leadership CONNECT:07-SEP-2025 (Y25W37)

Canaries are young professionals in AI-exposed jobs.
📉 New Stanford research shows that employment for software developers aged 22–25 dropped 20% between October 2022 and July 2025.
Customer service jobs…

Leadership CONNECT:31-AUG-2025 (Y25W36)

A 16-year-old boy named Adam Raine reached out to ChatGPT for comfort and answers.
Instead of guiding him toward safety, the AI allegedly validated his despair, suggested methods, and even drafted a…

AI Rebuilds Real Estate — One chart says it all: Data centers up, office space down (by James Eagle)

AI isn’t just transforming how we work — it’s increasingly transforming where we work.
For decades, real estate meant skyscrapers, office parks, and corporate campuses.
In this guest post, James Eagle — a…

Leadership CONNECT:24-AUG-2025 (Y25W35)

AI isn’t just transforming how we work — it’s increasingly transforming where we work.
For decades, real estate meant skyscrapers, office parks, and corporate campuses.
In this guest post, James Eagle — a…

Leadership CONNECT:17-AUG-2025 (Y25W34)

The T-shaped model shows us how to think in the AI age: breadth across many fields, and depth in one.
AI expands our breadth; our human judgment brings the depth. Together, they create value.

Leadership CONNECT:08-AUG-2025 (Y25W33)

This week, Google released what I consider a critical building block of the future — an AI tool to generate worlds.

Leadership CONNECT:31-JULY-2025 (Y25W32)

Here’s a 4-point summary of the post “Make America Think Again: Five Key Lessons from Trump’s Report ‘Winning the Race'”:

1. Strategic AI Blueprint – The report lays out a 3-pillar national plan: boost…

Winning the Race -- AMERICA’S AI ACTION PLAN - July 2025

The White House unveiled America’s AI Action Plan:
a strategic roadmap to strengthen U.S. leadership in AI through innovation, infrastructure, and global influence

Leadership CONNECT:24-JULY-2025 (Y25W31)

This post is a personal case report — a layered reflection on the evolving role of AI in our digital systems.
It weaves together three interconnected threads:

1. A spotlight on Replit, a fast-growing AI…

Grok by X — The Smartest AI, Called Itself Hitler

Grok, a prominent AI model, allegedly referred to itself as “Hitler.”
This incident, if true, not only breaks a pact but also shatters trust and raises profound questions about the ethical guardrails of…

Leadership CONNECT:17-JULY-2025 (Y25W30)

Grok, a prominent AI model, allegedly referred to itself as “Hitler.”
This incident, if true, not only breaks a pact but also shatters trust and raises profound questions about the ethical guardrails…

Time to Make AI Bots Pay $Cloudflare’s proposed “Pay Per Crawl” (by Pavel Israelsky)

As AI bots scrape the web for free, the internet’s decades-old pact with content creators is breaking apart.

In this post, authored by Pavel Israelsky, a worldwide maven in search and AI optimization (and a…

Leadership CONNECT:12-JULY-2025 (Y25W29)

As AI bots scrape the web for free, the internet’s decades-old pact with content creators is breaking apart.

In this post, Pavel Israelsky, a worldwide maven in search and AI optimization (and a friend of 20…

From Turing to ChatGPT: The Fast Development of Artificial Intelligence

The video traces AI’s development from Alan Turing to ChatGPT, emphasizing breakthroughs like neural networks, deep learning, and GPT models

an AI Make a Real Movie? WSJ Tests Google Veo and Runway

In the video, WSJ’s Joanna Stern and her team produced a short film using Google Veo and Runway.

Beyond Search: Canvas, Agents, Swarms, etc. — Explore 10 AI interfaces that will shape our world

For many, AI still feels like a smarter Google search bar. But the reality is far richer.
AI is moving beyond search into new interfaces—chat, voice, canvas, agents, swarms, and more—that redefine how we…

Leadership CONNECT:04-JULY-2025 (Y25W28)

For many, AI still feels like a smarter Google search bar. But the reality is far richer.
AI is moving beyond search into new interfaces—chat, voice, canvas, agents, swarms, and more—that redefine how we…

Leadership CONNECT: 27-JUNE-2025 (Y25W27)

126 slides on the state of AI.
A must-read (or video) for the AI thinker.
“1 in 8 workers now use AI monthly. AI-native apps are pulling in billions in revenue. But under the surface, the pace is even more…

Leadership CONNECT: 20-JUNE-2025 (Y25W26)

What if One Memo Became Nine Formats?

In a world of endless content, clarity matters. Using AI (NotebookLM), I turned one memo into nine formats—mind map, podcast, Q&A, brief, and even interactive…

Redesign Design — From Pixel Pushers to Trust Architects

In a world cranking out 23 billion e-books worth of stuff every second, what truly deserves your attention?

Who designed the pipe, and for what goal?

In this special guest post, Lance Shields…

Leadership CONNECT: 11-JUNE-2025 (Y25W25)

In a world cranking out 23 billion e-books worth of stuff every second, what truly deserves your attention?

Who designed the pipe, and for what goal?

In this special guest post, Lance Shields…

AI Meets Adizes PAEI — Applied Swords & Shields for Reflective Managers (by Dr. Ichak Adizes)

This post is for thinkers, doers, and leaders who utilize the Adizes PAEI model — or wish to. We explore how AI sharpens each role: the Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur, and Integrator.

We call it:…

Leadership CONNECT: 04-JUNE-2025 (Y25W24)

This post is for thinkers, doers, and leaders who utilize the Adizes PAEI model — or wish to.
We explore how AI sharpens each role: the Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur, and Integrator.
We call it:…