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Agentic AI: Lessons from Shell Game Season Two
“ Agentic agents don’t report to managers. They don’t wait for approval, don’t take PTO, and don’t operate within silos. They are persistent, autonomous, platform-native actors and together, they form a new kind of organization.” - Agentic AI: The end of roles as you know them In Season Two of the podcast Shell Game , host/startup entrepreneur, Evan Ratliff launches an Agentic AI company. The results are entertaining but they also point out why many agentic AI strategies are
Feb 1710 min read


GenAI is a Bazooka at a Knife Fight
In early September, Ontario Premier Doug Ford ( attempted ) to pour out a whole bottle of Crown Royal as a publicity stunt protest of an upcoming plant closure that would impact jobs. It had the intended effect of garnering media attention. It also got me thinking about the ways in which we are wasteful and how this idea of wastefulness is entangled with Generative AI. There’s a growing concern about the environmental impacts of AI. We’re hearing stories about the call for m
Oct 25, 20254 min read


From City Centre to Data Centre - a bold proposal*
Edmonton is known for hockey, cold winters and a really big mall . One might argue that we have the really big mall - which was once the...
Aug 29, 20253 min read


Book Review: A World Without Work
Will AI take your job? Daniel Susskind says, eventually, yes, but he also has some ideas on how to slow down the process and to move...
Jul 29, 20257 min read


Frankly Fake: The ethics of keeping it 'not real'
The other week, Google launched Veo 3 , its last video generation tools. The realistic quality of the tools spawned headlines like this...
Jun 13, 20254 min read
