Author: Paul Floren


  • Exhaustion Is The Signal

    On super-exponential AI acceleration, the failure of catch-up thinking, and what communications must become when the ground moves faster than the plan. “It is exhausting.” That is how an AI engineer described it to me. How do you keep up with something that is getting exponentially more intelligent on a curve that continues to bend…

  • The CEO Who Sounds Like Everyone Else Has Already Lost

    When I see the videos of the latest advances in robotics, machines doing cartwheels, two thoughts come to mind: the first, why would we make robots look and behave like us? Surely, there must be more efficient forms for the tasks at hand. Second, are we too at risk of becoming like machines doing cartwheels,…

  • The Wisdom We Didn’t Earn: AI, Experience, and the Knowledge That Only Hurts to Get

    The Wisdom We Didn’t Earn: AI, Experience, and the Knowledge That Only Hurts to Get ”Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” Because of the title of his book, many believe that Dostoevsky wrote that line about crime, moral collapse, or dramatic ruin, as in this specific scene, Sonya is…

  • The Voice That Got Away AI, Authenticity, and the Slow Death of Your Writing Voice

    Pick up almost any piece of writing on LinkedIn, Medium, or anywhere, really. Odds are better than even that it begins with a correction. It’s not about strategy. It’s about trust. Or: Leadership isn’t a title — it’s a practice. Or, in its aggressive form: The future of work isn’t AI replacing humans. It’s humans who use AI, replacing those…

  • Why 40% of AI Projects Will Be Cancelled by 2027

    Gartner has confirmed what I have been watching unfold in real time across the projects we are running at Intradiegetic. By 2028, more than half of all enterprises will have stopped paying for AI copilots. Simply put the market is moving past them toward agentic AI platforms that don’t assist humans with tasks, but execute…

  • Your operating system is your brand.

    After a particularly frustrating series of calls over several weeks with an East Coast United States internet service provider (they shall remain nameless, but I am sure many reading this can relate), I can’t help but marvel at how few companies still fail to realise that their operational systems are their brand.  It is the…