Category: Finance Technology & Tools

Practical tips, frameworks, and tools that make Finance work smarter.

  • Groundhog Day for Development?

    Don’t Get Lazy When AI Coding Hits the Inevitable Bumps You Hoped AI Avoided Legacy systems are inefficient, cumbersome, and bloated. AI-generated code can often achieve the same result far more efficiently. But don’t assume you completely understand what the “result” actually is — or why the legacy code takes winding turns through multiple tables,…

  • “No Kings”

    I saw a LinkedIn post recently arguing that companies once only needed a CEO and CFO, but over time accumulated layers of executive roles — CIO, CMO, CHRO, CISO, CPO, and so on — because the volume of information became too large for a CEO to process alone. The conclusion was that AI now changes…

  • The Workers Opting to Retire Instead of Taking on AI

    WSJ 7 Apr 2026 There’s a growing narrative—recently echoed in WSJ—that AI is accelerating the exit of workers over 50 because they’re unwilling to “relearn” yet another technology cycle. That conclusion is analytically weak. It confuses correlation with causation, then reinforces it with anecdotal interviews rather than structural evidence. Late-career workforce dynamics have always included…

  • The ‘AI Detector’ as Defamation Machine

    (James Taranto WSJ 3 Apr 2026) AI is going mainstream fast—doing exactly what it’s designed to do. And already we’ve got pieces like an WSJ op-ed calling AI detectors a defamation machine. So what’s actually happening? Is AI destroying writers’ careers? Or are the people using it doing the damage? The battle is on. If…

  • Hope Is Not a Method (Not in Medicine and Certainly not in Systems)

    The title of this post is borrowed intentionally. Years ago, I read Hope Is Not a Method: What Business Leaders Can Learn from America’s Army by General Gordon R. Sullivan (with Michael V. Harper). I found the idea compelling. When colleagues—and especially direct reports—would start in with “I hope…”, I would hand out the book.…