The distant past 2016 / Sand Hill Group ---

Whether you are an experienced Tech Executive, A CEO or Board member, this episode is packed with valuable insights on managing technology, risk, and innovation in an increasingly complex digital world.

I love this story from Kenya.

Gen AI / AI - Don't go to the dark side

Doctors spend twice as much time on administrative tasks as with patients, but AI can change that by reducing administrative burdens, improving diagnostic accuracy, and fostering a collaborative, patient-centered care model.

A good survey from the folks at McKinsey on GenAI in healthcare.

First, a bit from Azeem Azhar , who is a font of useful, even-handed smarts about tech and all its tentacles.

To me, the whole Gen AI /LLM domain exhibits the patterns of something just beginning, something at the start of the growth curve.

What is actually burning is your cash back at headquarters.

We are (mostly) all excited about the impact of GenAI and how fast that space is evolving, and rightly so.

Outside of the intelligence community, the teams inside the Dark Web are adopting emerging tech (e.g., all GenAI and AI developments) at the fastest, broadest rate. The next three years will make the last decade look like kindergarten.

How this sort of bonkers failure happens is usually pretty complex but has one foundational, simple, and necessary requirement.

Thanks to John Sviokla for highlighting the Superhuman article about AI and AGI from Ethan Mollick (who has a brilliant book , must-read, Co-Intelligence)

Houdini could not make an elephant disappear.

The amazing Harry Houdini couldn't actually make an elephant vanish, although he could make an entire theatre look one way as the elephant exited the opposite side of the stage.

Okay so it's 5/5 again and here's usual reminder of the importance of that battle and the lessons for business today updated for the GenAI era.

Four Great Change Waves Beginning Now in Healthcare…

If you want an over-caffeinated 7-minute info dump, this isn't it.

From a very serious journal, two weeks ago... 18 months ago, this would have been just dismissed out of hand as bonkers. Today it is real.