AI Business & Leadership

4 stories

• When AI does the work, what's still your job?

  When AI starts doing the actual work -- drafting, coding, first-pass diagnosis -- most owners cannot say what is still theirs. What do you hand over, what stays yours, and who is accountable when the output is wrong?...

  2026-09-04

• Is Private AI Infrastructure Actually the Future, or Just Hype?

  Short answer: for a meaningful slice of workloads, yes -- and I've heard this exact argument before, almost word for word, about private cloud in 2012. I've been doing this since 1988, and "the future of IT is...

  2026-08-26

• Do AI Certifications Actually Matter, or Should You Just Build the Lab?

  Short answer: the certification is worth pursuing, but only if it forces you to actually build the thing, not just memorize the exam objectives. I ran an entire blog series in 2012 walking IT pros step by step through...

  2026-08-25

• Why I Still Build My Own Lab in the AI Era (And Why You Should Too)

  I started in IT in 1988. Somewhere around 2011, I spent a year on the road running all-day TechNet events teaching IT pros how to build their own private cloud -- Hyper-V, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, System...

  2026-08-25