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Three Kinds of Judgment in the Control Room
Governance was never a single dial. In a control room it’s a signal path: a rule that doesn’t ask permission, an alarm that says…
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The New Core Skills Were Always the Core Skills
The skills that make someone effective in AI-native work — clear intent, rich context, honest feedback, critical listening — turn out to be the…
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The Ceremony Was Never the Point
AI-native teams are tearing up Scaled Agile — some by burning every ceremony, some by keeping them all. Both are missing it: the ceremony…
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The Upfront Is Dying, and Your Portfolio Plan Is Next
The broadcast upfront locked a year of ad inventory against a forecast that hadn’t happened yet — and streaming killed it. Annual portfolio planning…
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The Bottleneck Always Moves
When we went tapeless, the constraint didn’t disappear — it moved from the machine to the people instructing it. The intent for the show…
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What’s Actually Earning Its Keep, AI and Innovation
Every new tool wants a seat on the crew bus. Here’s my honest scorecard of which ones have actually earned it — and which…
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What’s Actually Earning Its Keep
Enough hype — here’s my honest scorecard of where AI is delivering real value in media operations right now, and where it isn’t yet.…
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Why I’m Writing
This site has been a quiet place. That’s about to change — three threads on where our industry is heading, AI in media workflows,…