It’s the answer to the question CEOs and business leaders everywhere are asking: Where’s my AI ROI?   It’s been four years this November when ChatGPT (November 30, 2022) released its first Large Language Model, igniting a tech tidal wave of new investment in Artificial Intelligence not seen since the roll-out...

What is your real value as a chief executive or any business leader in the age of AI? Have you asked yourself — can you be replaced? Or rather, will you be replaced? How would you know if it’s not too late? Here’s what I found. Like never before in...

Have you seen social media posts like these recently?    "$200 to fill my truck with Diesel ⛽ it's ridiculous," "Nearly $200 to fill my Denali" “Wow! $92 dollars to fill my SUV, I used to pay $55” These are the unintended consequences of what was to be a short kinetic military affair to free the northern hemisphere of a nuclear-armed Iran.  Instead, we’re now...

A quick note if you use gasoline, oil, fertilizer, tires, or anything plastic, the roughly 20 million barrels of crude oil that normally squeeze through the Strait of Hormuz each day (20% of global oil) along with 20% natural gas may come knocking on your wallet or P&L this month. So pay close attention. Since President Trump gave the nod to strike Iran on...

Take the pulse of American business leaders at the start of 2026 and you’ll find a common chronic obsession: getting the expected ROI from the country’s unquenchable spending on AI.  But this year, Boards and investors are no longer taking a back seat; it’s time to put up the numbers or let someone else take...

You’ve heard all the hype and fear. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the most productive technology ever invented to solve all our problems - and it’s coming for your job. That’s the incessant media headline.  Still, I too sounded the alarm, having written my fair share of fear-mongering articles about the unstoppable pace of achievements AI has demonstrated these past few years. But hang on! A recent AI research paper written by the non-profit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) in San Francisco has calmed me down a bit....

Scientists say early humans died young. Fossil records say average life expectancy was 38 years for Neanderthals, and 40 for Homo Sapiens. But this is a massive misconception of the consequences of calculating averages. If two humans, one dies at birth while the other is eaten by a Mammoth at age 70, the average age of death...

“What more sacred, what more strongly guarded by every ‘holy feeling,’ than a man’s own home?” — Cicero, Roman philosopher, 44 BC 2,000 years later, it's much the same feeling in America. It's part of the American Dream. And in times like these, our country must do more - go...

Have you seen it, the vastly vacant U.S. ports of entry on the West Coast as trade with China and other Asian nations grinds to a skidding halt like a derailed locomotive?  According to Gene Seroka, Port of Los Angeles executive director, China shipments in May will be down again...

That was fast! 2024 seemed to buzz right past us. And if you blinked, you may have missed quite a few history-making events, not to mention a historic Presidential re-election of Donald J. Trump as the 47th US President. Only one other president in American history skipped a term. President...

It was only a few years ago when working remote seemed all the rage. An endless stream of articles all proclaiming the end of big cities, traffic jams and office politics as Covid forced us all to stay home, and away from each other. Remember the predictions, the future of...

A lot has happened in the last 200 years! Think of it. In the early 1820s there was no electricity, no light bulbs, no automobiles, no steam locomotives, no telephones, no refrigerators, no microwave ovens, no internet, no cell phones, no social media and no Starbucks? My God! How did...

Absolutely, according to a recent analysis.  Wait! What?   For the past two years, I have written about younger Americans, especially millennials, struggling to put food on the table and blaming Baby Boomers, politics, and the wealth gap for their ill-fated attempts to accumulate cash and rope in the American Dream. Their...

If you haven’t been keeping up on the day-to-day developments in 2024, this year may be one to remember.  America is facing an historic point of inflection. Social media is tipping the balance in favor of the many voices collectively at odds with the status quo. There’s no one group. They...

The invention is as old as humanity. It’s older than religion, older than the pyramids, the Great Wall of China, older than the first written word. When exactly? Nobody knows. In fact, from the first unrecorded day in history when humans first gathered in markets to trade & sell food,...