W. Edwards Deming

Reading Ambitiously 4-18-25

For years, team size was a proxy for status. Bigger orgs. Bigger titles. Bigger budgets. That era is ending. Today’s highest-leverage leaders set a different default: Prove you can’t use AI before y...

Reading Ambitiously 4-18-25

Constraints, done right, don’t weaken an organization. They sharpen it. Just look at the rise of DeepSeek, the open-source AI model out of China. Some say they “cheated” their way to OpenAI-level per...

Reading Ambitiously 4-18-25

The zero-interest-rate era has ended—and with it, the “grow at all costs” mindset. Software budgets are under scrutiny. Capital has a cost again. Guidance is cautious....