Category: Finance Technology & Tools

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

  • 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.…

  • AI, “Faux Expertise,” and the Real Threshold of Knowing

    We were in the middle of replacing an enterprise-wide application. As expected, requirements gathering was uneven. Some departments came prepared—with workflows, documentation, and a clear understanding of how their function operated within the broader system. Others arrived with little more than fragments. That imbalance slowed everything: scoping stalled, dependencies remained unclear, and constructing a credible…

  • AI Isn’t Stealing Knowledge. It’s Institutionalizing It.

    A recent Wall Street Journal article argued that workers worried about AI taking their jobs may be missing an even bigger danger — cue the escalation that sells headlines — AI systems absorbing institutional knowledge and shifting control away from individuals. The fear is real. Surveys show it across industries. Not just routine workers. Knowledge…