Essays & Field Notes
Writing on AI, operating models & cloud-scale execution
31 essays — board-ready perspective from someone who has actually shipped at scale: 1B+ requests/day, 1,400-app migrations, and real carve-outs.
Open Weights Are Closing In — But Not on the Work That Decides Budgets
GLM-5.2 sits within a point of Claude Opus 4.8 on coding at one-sixth the cost. But coding benchmarks are not boardroom work. A board-level guide to what the open-weights surge changes — and what it doesn't.
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A well reasoned explanation of why the singularity is upon us
this fantastic paper at Columbia university at 17 and got the price for the best economic Thesis...) has written a number of essays analyzing the computacional
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The Symbiosis: AI and Remote Work. Redefining the Future of Work
Table of Contents AI as the Backbone of Temporary Teams
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AI Signal Layer
A weekly digest of high-signal AI feeds for operators and boards: pricing resets, regulatory moves, lab announcements, agent benchmarks and the patterns underneath them.
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AI tools for strategy: an executive playbook
How Copilot for PowerPoint, Claude Code, and Claude Skills are changing the work of executives — plus a curated library of twenty strategy frameworks worth combining with AI methods.
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From vision to value: AI inside a global travel distributor
A case study in radical agility. How a 0.2-FTE team built a secure, scalable AI analytics platform in three months, replacing $700K of commercial licences while keeping every byte of data inside the c
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Estado de la IA 2025: resumen ejecutivo
Mi resumen en doce secciones del State of AI Report 2025 de Nathan Benaich. Modelos de razonamiento, abierto vs cerrado, geopolítica del cómputo, IA agéntica y predicciones a 12 meses.
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Management Spanish-style
Anglo-Saxon business practices have long dominated global management. Backed by influential institutions (Harvard, Stanford), iconic frameworks (Porter, Drucker
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Mastering Digital Transformation with AI
Digital transformation is no longer a luxury; it is now a necessity for businesses aiming to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced world. As technology continu
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Myths and Merits of LLMs
LLMs impress at what humans find hard and fail at what humans find easy. A leader's guide to fluency vs. reliability, the 70% calculator, broken RAG, and the Thinking Slow imperative.
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Navigating Digital Transformation with AI
Staying ahead in today’s hyper-connected and fast-evolving digital world is a necessity for businesses aiming to thrive. One of the most critical enablers for t
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Podcasts I listen to
A working list of podcasts shaping how I think about AI, business, leadership and growth.
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SaaS, AI and the Next Cycle
Personal musings on the state of SaaS, the frozen IPO market, the role of private equity write-downs, and how AI is rewriting budgets and strategy.
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Senior Advisor: el valor de la experiencia
Cómo aprovechar el talento ejecutivo de la generación baby-boom mediante la figura del Senior Advisor. Lecturas para consejos y comités de dirección a partir del estudio europeo de Exec Avenue.
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State of AI 2025: an executive summary
My twelve-section summary of the State of AI Report 2025 by Nathan Benaich. Reasoning models, open vs closed, the geopolitics of compute, agentic AI, and predictions for the next twelve months.
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The Counterintuitive Truth About AI and the Workforce
AI is surprisingly good at creative work and surprisingly bad at judgement. The middle of the cognitive pyramid — evaluation — is the new human frontier. A CEO's guide.
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La tormenta perfecta en Recursos Humanos
Para 2030, el 40% de las competencias laborales clave habrán cambiado. Por qué los departamentos de RRHH no están preparados para la disrupción que viene — y qué deben hacer ya.
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API & Integration Architecture Learnings from Cloud ERP
Nine learnings on microservices, integration architecture and financial reporting impact — extracted from operator experience across Hotelbeds, Awaze, Lloyds and advisory engagements.
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Cloud ERP and AI-in-COTS: Where the Parallels Hold, Where They Break
Three deep structural parallels between the cloud ERP migration wave and the introduction of AI into COTS and SaaS packages — and three places the analogy breaks down. A board-level guide.
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Señales y Ruido: Lo que Realmente Importa en IA (Marzo 2026)
Cinco líneas maestras que están definiendo el tablero de juego para los comités de dirección este mes: gobernanza agentiva, ROI, regulación europea, automatización del conocimiento y la paradoja de la
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Soberanía Cognitiva: ¿Quién posee la inteligencia?
Mónica González Paz aplica el marco de la trampa cognitiva (Álvaro de Nicolás, 2026) a pm-workspace y al comando /sovereignty-audit para medir el lock-in cognitivo en organizaciones que adoptan IA.
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Four Generations of Integration Platforms — and Where Hotelbeds Group Sat in Each
The four-tier evolution of integration platforms has played out on the PMS side but stalled on the inventory-wholesale side. A taxonomy for travel-tech operators and investors.
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Generative AI + 'Brain Fry'
When AI intensifies work instead of simplifying it. A study of 1,488 full-time workers: oversight overload, decision fatigue, and five actions for leaders.
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Recipes for AI: From Pilots to Production
Practical recipes from the Revamp, HBX and Zapier playbooks: how to manage hallucinations, segment use cases, avoid the pilot graveyard, and sequence Year-1 quick wins with Year-2 strategic integratio
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The Pendulum: One Last Swing
Seventy-five years of acceleration in business have followed one pattern: find the bottleneck, smash it, accept the price, deal with the new one. AI is the first super-exponential swing — and it chang
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The Executive Playbook for AI in HR under GDPR
A board-ready framework for deploying AI in HR within the GDPR perimeter. Three zones — Now, Enterprise, Ideal — twenty-plus use cases, and a 90-day plan that reclaims up to 73% of HR administrative t
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La tercera extracción: datos soberanos, energía y nuestro futuro
Joserra Concha analiza la nueva fase del capitalismo digital: del dato personal al conocimiento estratégico, y la disputa geopolítica por los recursos que alimentan la IA.
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Anatomy of a Surge: The Late-October 2025 Global Hotel Booking Spike
A comprehensive analysis of the confluence of factors — market forces, commercial strategies, external events — that precipitated the unanticipated 20%+ global hotel booking surge in late October 2025
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The AI Decision Matrix: From Automation to Augmentation
A decision-architecture framework for CIOs and boards: when to delegate to algorithms, when to retain human judgment, and the five-point selection test that separates the two.
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AI Podcast Knowledge Library
A curated library of AI-focused podcast episodes from 2025–2026: themes, pull quotes and CTO-strategy angles across foundation models, agents, infrastructure, robotics and policy.
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Navigating the AI Revolution
Adoption, impact, risks & governance in 2025 — an interactive briefing.
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