Living in the future
Personal essays, observations and strategic perspectives on the cognitive, technological and human shifts shaping the next generation of organisations, ventures and society.
Personal observations, analyses, and strategic perspectives.
The End of Prompt Engineering
As models reason better, the need for complex prompt chains diminishes.
Human-in-the-Loop, Properly Defined
Human-in-the-loop was never about having a person nearby. It was about designing exactly where judgment enters a system — and most companies that claim to have it have only the nearby part.
Complementarity-Aware Collaboration
Most AI training teaches people to use the tool. Almost none teaches the harder, rarer skill: knowing, in real time, whether your judgment or the system's is more likely to be right.
Systems Thinking for the AI Era: Why Architecture Beats Heroism
The majority of AI implementation failures trace back to a system nobody mapped, not a model that misbehaved. Systems thinking is the skill that catches this before deployment, not after.
What Is Human-Centered AI?
Human-Centered AI says what an AI system should optimise for: human needs, trust, inclusion. It doesn't say how an organisation has to be architected for that to actually hold once the system ships. That gap is the whole job.
The cognitive AI asymmetry: when AI thinks for those who stopped thinking for themselves
A fifty-one-year-old procurement manager in Lisbon told me he no longer reads reports. He pastes them into the assistant and asks what he should think. His company sees a productivity gain. I see a man who has outsourced his judgment to a system that cannot judge.
$285 billion disappeared over a markdown file. The real damage hasn't started.
On January 30, 2026, Anthropic released a set of open source plugins for Claude Co-work. One of them, a legal contract review tool, was essentially 200 lines of structured markdown. First-year law school content dressed in intelligent
The mental models AI cannot replace
The strategy director had 22 years of experience synthesizing complex information. Within six months, AI did it in seconds. He felt the ground disappear — not because he was fired, but because he realized he had never learned to think. He had learned to process.
The Cognitive Architecture of AI-Human Teams
How organisations must redesign their decision-making structures when intelligence becomes distributed between humans and machines.
Strategic Foresight in Uncertain Times
How to build adaptive strategy when traditional planning frameworks break down under rapid technological change.
The Infrastructure of Intelligence
A comprehensive analysis of the technical, organisational, and human infrastructure required to deploy AI effectively in enterprise environments.
Agentic Workflows — Beyond Chat
The shift from chat-based AI to agentic systems represents the most significant architectural change since cloud computing.
Cognitive Load in the Age of Agents
When AI generates infinite options, human judgment becomes the bottleneck.
Framework Fatigue
The greatest risk in the AI era is not lack of frameworks. It is the illusion that frameworks replace thought.
Building the AI-Native Firm
It is not about adding AI to current workflows. It is about redesigning from the ground up.
A IA não vai substituir psicólogos. Mas pode tornar irrelevante quem a ignorar.
Um em cada três utilizadores já recorre à IA para apoio emocional. A Psicologia ainda finge que não vê. Quem integrar a IA agora não vai perder relevância — vai liderar a próxima revolução em saúde mental.
Karpathy vs McKinsey: why I trust those who get their hands dirty
There is a fundamental divide in how we talk about AI. Karpathy has scars from making AI work when lives are on the line. McKinsey sells confidence they have not earned. That difference matters — especially when you are the one paying for the transformation.
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