Nexus Notes

Speed Is Winning. Clarity Is Falling Behind. Right now, artificial intelligence is moving faster than most organizations can meaningfully absorb. New tools, new features, and new “breakthroughs” are announced almost weekly. Executives are under pressure to adopt, employees are experimenting on their own, and vendors are promising transformation in days rather than months. The conversation is no longer about whether AI will be used. It is about how quickly it can be deployed. In that rush,...

The Year We Define What AI Is For A new year tends to invite bold proclamations. Grand predictions. Perfect plans. Declarations of certainty in a world that is anything but certain. January is often filled with sweeping promises about transformation, disruption, and exponential gains. But experience has taught me that progress rarely comes from louder claims or tighter timelines. AI is not the problem. Alignment is. That idea continues to sit at the center of everything I am writing,...

A Year-End Reflection on AI The days between Christmas and the New Year are unlike any other. The inbox slows. Meetings disappear. The noise softens just enough to allow something rare: reflection. It is a moment suspended between what was and what comes next, where urgency gives way to perspective. This pause matters more than ever in the age of artificial intelligence. We are surrounded by speed, output, and promises of abundance. Intelligence is faster, cheaper, and more accessible than at...

When Intelligence Becomes Abundant but Alignment Does Not This week, much of the conversation around artificial intelligence continues to focus on abundance. Abundant intelligence. Abundant access. Abundant capability. The assumption is that once intelligence becomes widely available, progress will naturally follow. But history suggests that access alone has never been enough to produce meaningful or equitable change. Technology does not arrive in neutral conditions. It enters existing...

Named No. 1 Contributor for 2025 This past weekend brought an unexpected moment of pause and reflection. I was named the GurusDirect No.1 Contributor for 2025, an honor that genuinely caught me off guard. Recognition is never the reason to write, but moments like this create space to consider why the work matters and which conversations deserve sustained attention. When I began writing about artificial intelligence nearly two years ago, the intent was not to predict outcomes or amplify...

ChatGPT Turns Three: The Technology Grew. Did We? This week marks something interesting. ChatGPT quietly turned three years old. In technology years, that feels closer to adolescence than infancy. Millions of people use it weekly. Nearly every major company has at least one experiment running. Yet despite its reach, the conversation around AI still feels split between fascination and frustration. We have a tool powerful enough to reshape how we work, think, and learn, but we are still...

Leading with Intention The days after Thanksgiving have always felt like a pause between seasons. The urgency of the year slows for a moment, and reflection feels more natural than routine. For many, this is the one weekend where time stretches differently. Our inboxes are quieter. Deadlines soften. The world invites a reset. It is in that stillness that we can finally ask a question we often avoid during busy months: Are we moving with intention, or merely reacting to momentum? In business...

Human and Machine, Learning Each Other Over the past few years, artificial intelligence has shifted from a technical tool into something far more relational. We are no longer just asking AI to automate tasks. We are asking it to think with us, to help us reason, and to extend our capacity to understand complex problems. That shift is exciting, but it is also creating new questions that leadership cannot ignore. What does partnership with AI look like? Who is responsible when decisions are...

A New Beginning It has been a while since you’ve seen a new edition of Nexus Notes, and for good reason. The past four months have been intense, focused, and transformative. I stepped away from the weekly rhythm of writing to finish one of the most important chapters of my life: my doctoral dissertation. This week, after years of research, interviews, revisions, late nights, and more coffee than I will ever admit publicly, I successfully defended it. That moment changed something for me. That...

Let AI Handle the Routine. Let Humans Handle the Unexpected. As artificial intelligence becomes more deeply embedded in our organizations, it is tempting to overstate its purpose. The promise of faster decision-making, lower costs, and greater efficiency often becomes the headline. But in reality, AI is not here to replace us. It is here to reassign us. It is here to shift our attention from the mundane to the meaningful, from routine tasks to complex problems that still require human...