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Your Data Strategy is Your AI Strategy. Christian Ward explores how AI transforms how we work, think, and build relationships with data.
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Two Things to Keep in Mind as AI Agents Take Shape
OpenClaw Went From Side Project to Control War in 90 Days. I Spent the Long Weekend Building Mine.
SaaS Reincarnated Data + AI Is the New SaaS. The Model Is Changing, Not Dying. Christian J. Ward February 11, 2026 Data + AI Is the New SaaS. The Model Is Changing, Not Dying. $285 billion wiped from...
AI will take the jobs. Your career is up to you.
Context graphs have a problem that deserves more attention. The promise of context graphs is to capture decision traces, build organizational memory, and preserve the reasoning behind every choice so...
There's a scene in The Dark Knight where the Joker walks into a room full of mobsters, breaks a pool cue in half, and drops the two pieces on the floor. "We're going to have tryouts," he says. Only...
Last week, Jaya Gupta and Ashu Garg at Foundation Capital published a piece that caught fire across the tech world. They argued that context graphs capturing decision traces represent the next...
In the 1970s, psychologist Stanley Milgram ran one of his lesser-known experiments. He placed hidden earpieces on participants and fed them words to speak in real-time during conversations with...
In last week's post, The Verification Trust Problem , I argued that trust is the currency of AI. If you cannot trust your AI, you stop using it. But as these models scale, a new problem has emerged....
Trust is the currency of AI . While this might sound like marketing copy, it actually describes the core economic reality facing every business today. The Latin roots verus (true) and facere (to...
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you Datable readers, and Happy Birthday to ChatGPT! Three years ago yesterday, ChatGPT launched (Nov 30, 2022). As Ethan Mollick pointed out this morning, we are...
When vendors demo their "AI agent," they're often showing you a workflow automation with better branding. Most of the agents I'm seeing in the market are really just automations —the repeated steps...
François Chollet, creator of Keras, put it plainly a few days ago. "To really understand a concept, you have to 'invent' it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn't come from passive content...
Pessimism doesn't belong in SEO. The answer is in the word itself. The word "optimization" contains an inherent bias. It comes from the Latin optimus , meaning "the best." The same root gave us...
This week has been an insane demonstration of something that Naval Ravikant figured out years ago. Outliers come from 10,000 iterations. Not 10,000 hours. I love this. Success comes from iterative...
Something incredible is happening (again) with time . I’m using “ TimeShift ” to describe the recurring pattern where breakthrough innovations restructure how humans spend their productive hours. You...
Several important things are happening simultaneously. As memory and compute combine , we're going to see a massive leap in the capabilities of what appears to be intelligence . This rapid evolution...
There are a few commercials from my youth that I will never forget. To this day, they still make me laugh when one of my siblings brings them up or quotes them (“ He likes it! Hey, Mikey?! ”). I...
AI makes it incredibly hard to spot errors, which is not a new problem so much as the acceleration of an old one. We have been conditioned for generations to accept convincing narratives, starting...
The line between the search bar and a chat window is disappearing, creating a new, continuous experience. Things are changing fast, and I've noticed a growing complacency with AI in the adoption of...
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