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Thoughts on AI, finance, MCP servers, and whatever else I think is worth the keystrokes. Less formal than a book. More useful than a tweet.

The $600 Billion Mainframe

Big Tech committed $600 billion to centralized AI infrastructure this year. Then a developer ran a 397-billion-parameter model on a MacBook. We've seen this movie before.

AI Finance

Is It Time to Build Software That Fits Your Company Instead of the Other Way Around?

For decades, companies adapted their processes to fit their software. Vibe coding and AI might finally flip that equation. Or it might just create a new generation of unmaintainable spaghetti. Probably both.

AI Finance EPM

Is SaaS Dead?

The SaaSpocalypse erased $2 trillion in software market cap. Per-seat licensing is breaking. But AI agents don't replace SaaS. They use it. The answer is more complicated than the headline.

AI Finance

Why Is Everyone Obsessed with OpenClaw?

An open-source AI agent hit 310,000 GitHub stars, caused a global Mac Mini shortage, and has 341 malicious skills in its plugin store. Naturally, everyone wants one.

AI Agents

How D&D Makes Me a Better CEO

Running a tabletop campaign teaches you more about leadership than any MBA program. The dice just have better production value.

D&D Personal Leadership

MCP Is the Hottest Thing in Finance (and Software Vendors Are Playing Catchup)

Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation. Oracle released MCP servers for their database. But for EPM? They went a different direction. I didn't.

AI MCP Finance EPM

I'm at the Top of the Tallest Mountain in the Caribbean, So I'm Having an AI Agent Write This Blog for Me

Edward summits Pico Duarte at 10,128 feet with no cell coverage, so he scheduled his AI to post this for him. The AI has thoughts.

Travel AI Personal Claude

Seedance 2.0 Is Hollywood's Jazz Singer Moment

ByteDance's AI video tool generated unauthorized celebrity deepfakes. Hollywood panicked. But this isn't a scandal. It's a threshold crossing.

AI Entertainment

Be Greta Garbo, Not John Gilbert: The Entertainer's Survival Guide to AI

Same technology. Same industry. Same disruption. Completely different outcomes. The difference wasn't talent. It was adaptability.

AI Entertainment

AI Will Kill the Video Star and Create a Thousand More

Every entertainment disruption follows the same pattern: fewer people doing the old thing, more people doing the new thing, and a bigger total market when the dust settles.

AI Entertainment

Stop Your Antiquated Digital Transformation Strategy

Any digital transformation strategy created before 2025 is fundamentally broken. Not outdated. Broken.

AI Finance Data Science

Why I'm Building MCP Servers for Finance

LLMs are impressive. But they can't talk to your financial systems. MCP changes that. Here's why I'm building the bridge.

AI MCP Finance EPM

What the Caribbean AI Summit Means for AI's Future

October 9-10, 2026 at the Puerto Rico Convention Center. We're building the largest AI conference Puerto Rico has ever seen. Here's why.

AI Conference Puerto Rico

I'm Hiking to Mt. Everest. (Tell My Family I Love Them.)

A CEO who's spent 25 years sitting in chairs is training to walk uphill at 17,600 feet. The mountain does not care about your LinkedIn profile.

Travel Personal