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AI Services Market in SMB and SLED
A White Paper on Advisory, Delivery, and Agentic Transformation Positioning Statement AI is becoming a services-led transformation market, not just a software category. The organizations that win will be those that help buyers adopt AI with confidence, embed it into real workflows, and maintain value over time. If you want, I can next convert this…
The Parallels of Pioneering: Electricity in the 1800s and AI Today
Back in December 2025 I wrote a piece about the early days of flying and what the Wright brothers did What the Wright Brothers Can Teach Us About AI’s Future. Today I am writing this one about the early days of electricity. In our modern era, the development and deployment of artificial intelligence echo the…
The Local AI Revolution: How AMD is Challenging Nvidia
For the better part of a decade, Nvidia has dominated the artificial intelligence (AI) landscape, not just with high-performance graphics cards but by building an ecosystem that locked in developers and researchers. Anyone looking to engage in serious AI development was expected to pay the hefty “Nvidia tax.” I have written before about the NVIDIA…
Exploring MiniMax in June 2026
The AI landscape is constantly evolving, and at the forefront of this revolution is the MiniMax series, a family of powerful, efficiency-focused large language models developed by MiniMax, a Shanghai-based AI company. MiniMax models are engineered specifically to excel at high-throughput agentic workflows, long-context comprehension, and complex software engineering tasks. I have been testing MiniMax…
The Pink Panther: 60-Year-Old Cartoon
A practical guide for professionals curious about how entertainment franchises survive—and thrive—across decades – Teaches Us About IP Ownership, Digital Strategy, and the Future of Entertainment A Confession Before We Begin Silly me—I know this one sounds a little unusual. Most of the topics I write about involve technology, business strategy, artificial intelligence, digital transformation,…
From Windows 11 to Ubuntu for my Local AI Workstation
It is a strange feeling to look at a piece of hardware—all shiny, new, and theoretically capable—and feel the quiet frustration of it underperforming. You know the specs. You’ve seen the benchmarks. Yet, when you prompt an LLM, the cursor blinks for a beat too long, and your CPU usage jumps while your GPU sits…
Fully Local Hermes Agent Stack on my Ryzen AI
I have been using Agent Zero, but after watching the many reviews, I got curious about Hermes and decided to give it a try as a container on my Ryzen AI PC. Running autonomous agent architectures completely locally on consumer hardware is the absolute frontier of modern AI engineering. Moving from terminal-centric frameworks like Agent…
Google I/O 2026: The End of Traditional SEO as We Know It
Google’s annual developer conference has always been a stage for change, but Google I/O 2026 delivered something most marketers were not prepared for: the complete restructuring of how search visibility works. The search giant has made it official: the era of optimizing solely for blue links is over. What Actually Changed at Google I/O Google…
The Prove-It Economy and the New Rules of Credibility
Audio version: I have been thinking a lot about this in the past few months. also been helping some friends in the massive change we are undergoing at the moment. What made me finally get to writing this piece was a particular YouTube video by Nate Jones which came after seeing several over the weekend…
Forward Deployment Engineer
I have been selling, managing and doing technology consulting for years, and I have to confess this term makes me tickle a little… “Forward Deployment Engineer” sounds like the kind of title invented in a meeting where someone wanted to make consulting sound cooler, newer, and more tactical. But behind the buzzword, there is a…
The Future of Work: Microsoft Copilot Cowork
It is funny how things change… a couple of days ago I posted about: Microsoft Copilot Growing Up – How to remove Copilot from your Device , and today… At a recent showcase in Sydney, Microsoft unveiled a glimpse into the next evolution of productivity: Agentic AI. This isn’t just about a chatbot answering questions;…
Microsoft Copilot Growing Up
My own relationship with Microsoft Copilot started with high hopes, followed by the “trough of disillusionment.” Like many, I grudgingly launched it yesterday only because I needed to handle confidential data within our enterprise security layer. I went through my standard procedure to manually override the default—and then I saw it: Claude Opus in the…
Microsoft Enables Copilot App Removal
For the past year, Microsoft Copilot has felt like the uninvited guest that wouldn’t leave. Forced onto taskbars and integrated into nearly every corner of Windows 11, the AI assistant was met with mixed reviews—and significant pushback from enterprise IT departments concerned about data privacy and “AI bloat.” Following the April 2026 Patch Tuesday update,…
The Denver Omelette: A Breakfast Mystery with Four Origin Stories
I was recently in Denver, Colorado speaking at an event for my company, and I always try to find something of a simple icebreaker story or my audience, and just that morning, I had a Denver omelet for breakfast. Having eaten this all of my life, and not knowing anything about its origins, I decided…
IT Consulting In The Era Of Infinite Knowledge
How the End of Information Scarcity is Redefining Human Value. It’s Not About Technical Skills Anymore A couple of days ago I wrote a blog post called The Economics of Free and Infinite Knowledge This one is follow-up to that one. For decades, the IT consulting world operated on a simple premise: bring the smartest…
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The Economics of Free and Infinite Knowledge
How the End of Information Scarcity is Redefining Human Value. For centuries, progress has been driven by closing gaps—between effort and output, knowledge and decision, intention and execution. But a new dynamic is emerging: Artificial Intelligence isn’t just erasing the gap in what we know; it’s erasing the gap in what we can do. We’ve…
Meet Gemma 4: Architecture, Origins, and What It Means for Open AI Models
I just posted yesterday Local AI Sovereignty: Deploying Ollama, Gemma 4, OpenWebUI, and n8n and I used Gemma 4 locally on Ollama. Someone asked me a good question: What and Why Gemma 4 Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly evolved from research concepts into foundational tools for modern work. Gemma 4 represents one of the…
Claude What Changed and What It Means
Did Anthropic just send a warning shot to all Agent builders? Impacts to OpenRouter, Cursor, Agent Zero, and OpenClaw For a while, many people used Claude models through third-party tools as if a normal subscription was enough to power everything. That is changing fast. Anthropic has now clarified that Claude subscription access is meant for…
What Kind of Computer Do I need to run Gemma 4 Locally
I just posted yesterday Local AI Sovereignty: Deploying Ollama, Gemma 4, OpenWebUI, and n8n and I used Gemma 4 locally on Ollama. Someone asked me a good question: What size computer (Windows PC) do I need tor it? What size computer do you need for Gemma 4? Google’s April 2026 release of Gemma 4 changed…
Local AI Sovereignty: Deploying Ollama, Gemma 4, OpenWebUI, and n8n
With 64GB of RAM and the latest Ryzen AI silicon, you are no longer a mere consumer of AI—you are a host. This setup leverages AMD’s XDNA architecture to run Gemma 4 and / or and Qwen 3.5 locally, ensuring your data never leaves your machine while providing a professional-grade automation suite via Docker. This…
Journey into AI-Generated Audiobooks
The Milestone: I Published My Book. Now What? – There is no feeling quite like seeing your book live on Amazon. But as soon as my eBook and print versions were available, the same suggestion kept popping up: “Where is the audiobook?” In today’s fast-paced world, readers are often actually “listeners.” They consume stories during…
KDP Advertising Blueprint (2026)
Launching High-Margin “Short Reads” In the current KDP market, AI-assisted “Short Reads” (25–50 pages) are a high-efficiency play. However, because these books are shorter, your advertising strategy must be mathematically perfect to ensure the cost of the click doesn’t swallow your profit. This guide outlines a 19-day “Launch & Learn” phase designed to find your…
Managing IT Services in the AI Era
You’ve probably sat through the pitch. Every IT services vendor you work with — or are evaluating — now leads with AI. Faster delivery. Smarter automation. Outcome-based everything. Some of it is real. A lot of it is repackaging. And as the person responsible for making these relationships actually work, the pressure is on you…
Lean AI Agent Server from an old computer
A few weeks ago, I stared at my old, underutilized mini-PC. It sports a modest Quad-Core 2.0GHz Intel CPU (Family 6, Model 9c) paired with 8GB of RAM. Under Windows 11, the machine was usable but slow. The operating overhead were choking the hardware before I could even launch an application. I wanted to repurpose…
Streamlining Agent Zero: Skill Errors Back to Basics
When I first started experimenting with Agent Zero, I wanted to keep things totally “temporary” and isolated from my own data. My mindset was simple: I didn’t want the Docker container saving any clutter to my computer. I wanted it to start fresh every time. For a few days, this worked well. Agent Zero was…
LinkedIn vs Substack: Where Should You Publish Your Content?
If you’re creating content online, one question shows up almost immediately: should you publish on LinkedIn or Substack? It sounds like a simple choice—but it isn’t. These platforms serve fundamentally different purposes, and understanding that difference can completely change how your content performs. The Core Difference At a glance, the distinction is straightforward: LinkedIn is…
WordPress Maintenance: Fleet Management Update 2026
f you’ve been following my journey for a while, you might remember my original post about managing multiple WordPress sites. Back then, having three or four sites felt like a lot. Fast forward to today, and if you’re a developer, agency owner, or even a serial hobbyist, that number has likely tripled. The problem remains…