From Dial-Up to GPT-5

How the AI Moment Rhymes with the Internet’s Dawn Or Does it? Going back for the summer to Spain to visit family, I found myself in my mom’s basement—dust motes in the sunbeams, the faint smell of cardboard and old paper, and boxes labeled in my younger handwriting. In one, under envelopes of old photos from my photo-journalistic period and the detritus of a pre-cloud … Continue reading From Dial-Up to GPT-5

What Happens When Interns “Know” …

…More Than Executives? In consulting and other knowledge industries, the traditional model has always followed a clear path: junior employees process information, middle managers synthesize it, and senior leaders make the final calls. Experience and hierarchy went hand in hand. But that structure is starting to break. Thanks to generative AI, interns and entry-level analysts now have access to tools that allow them to move … Continue reading What Happens When Interns “Know” …

AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?

The Quiet Emergency Behind the AI BoomEveryone is excited about AI breaking records, writing code, designing new medicines, and maybe even thinking like us. But there is one big problem growing behind all of this: electricity. For example, training GPT-3 used 1,287 megawatt-hours of energy—enough to power 100,000 homes. Every time someone asks ChatGPT a question, it uses about five times more electricity than a … Continue reading AI Wants to Eat the Grid: Will Humanity Feed It or Fry First?

The Quiet Revolution Turning Brains Into Infrastructure

What if your company never forgot anything? The Infinite Knowledge Legacy is here—and it’s rewriting how businesses think, learn, and scale. In most companies, when someone quits, something dies. A process disappears. A pitch is lost. A shortcut never gets passed on. It’s not just people that leave—it’s memory. Now imagine that never happening again. A new wave of AI-infused infrastructure is making it possible … Continue reading The Quiet Revolution Turning Brains Into Infrastructure