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  • Three Kinds of Judgment in the Control Room
    Industry Direction

    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…

    2026-10-13
  • The New Core Skills Were Always the Core Skills
    Career & Leadership

    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…

    2026-09-29
  • The Ceremony Was Never the Point
    Innovation in Practice

    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…

    2026-09-29
  • The Upfront Is Dying, and Your Portfolio Plan Is Next
    Industry Direction

    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…

    2026-09-04
  • The Bottleneck Always Moves
    Innovation in Practice

    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…

    2026-08-31
  • What’s Actually Earning Its Keep, AI and Innovation
    Innovation in Practice

    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…

    2026-08-26
  • Innovation in Practice

    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.…

    2026-08-07
  • Why I’m Writing
    Career & Leadership

    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,…

    2026-07-27
James Stellpflug

James Stellpflug

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