Your Data Strategy is Your AI Strategy. Christian Ward explores how AI transforms how we work, think, and build relationships with data.
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The MCP Debate, the Dashboard Problem, and the Open Source Turn Are One Story
I have been fascinated by economics my whole life. My feed is full of people describing what AI is doing to work, and economics wrote that story down decades ago. Six famous theories, in plain words, and what AI does to each.
Tokens Measure What You Spent. TORC Measures What You Made.
Software is going away, and that is the best thing that could happen to the companies smart enough to see it.
Companies want AI speed, but speed breaks when the company cannot remember what actually happened. The next layer of AI adoption is a memory layer, a shared timeline humans and agents can both read.
AI agents need current state, not just pages to cite. As Search moves toward agents, brands need live answers machines can safely use.
Stable knowledge, context, and live state do not decay at the same speed.
Why adoption is not proficiency, and why the next five years widen the gap between operators and the middle.
Why one company killing their UI and another letting anyone conjure a UI in seconds point at the same consumer reality
After eight years of trying every second brain tool, LLMs finally made knowledge graphs work. Here is what a voice-first pipeline looks like.
When AI stopped being "what dad does at work" and showed up at the kitchen table.
AI Email Slop, Goodhart's Law, and the Memory That Follows You Home
Two Things to Keep in Mind as AI Agents Take Shape
OpenClaw Went From Side Project to Control War in 90 Days. I Spent the Long Weekend Building Mine.
SaaS Reincarnated Data + AI Is the New SaaS. The Model Is Changing, Not Dying. Christian J. Ward February 11, 2026 Data + AI Is the New SaaS. The Model Is Changing, Not Dying. $285 billion wiped from...
AI will take the jobs. Your career is up to you.
Context graphs have a problem that deserves more attention. The promise of context graphs is to capture decision traces, build organizational memory, and preserve the reasoning behind every choice so...
There's a scene in The Dark Knight where the Joker walks into a room full of mobsters, breaks a pool cue in half, and drops the two pieces on the floor. "We're going to have tryouts," he says. Only...
Last week, Jaya Gupta and Ashu Garg at Foundation Capital published a piece that caught fire across the tech world. They argued that context graphs capturing decision traces represent the next...
In the 1970s, psychologist Stanley Milgram ran one of his lesser-known experiments. He placed hidden earpieces on participants and fed them words to speak in real-time during conversations with...
In last week's post, The Verification Trust Problem , I argued that trust is the currency of AI. If you cannot trust your AI, you stop using it. But as these models scale, a new problem has emerged....
Trust is the currency of AI . While this might sound like marketing copy, it actually describes the core economic reality facing every business today. The Latin roots verus (true) and facere (to...
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you Datable readers, and Happy Birthday to ChatGPT! Three years ago yesterday, ChatGPT launched (Nov 30, 2022). As Ethan Mollick pointed out this morning, we are...
When vendors demo their "AI agent," they're often showing you a workflow automation with better branding. Most of the agents I'm seeing in the market are really just automations —the repeated steps...
François Chollet, creator of Keras, put it plainly a few days ago. "To really understand a concept, you have to 'invent' it yourself in some capacity. Understanding doesn't come from passive content...
