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One question sorts every task you'll do this week

If something else did the task instead of you, would anyone be able to tell?

Pallas Advisory

Your best work gets 45 seconds. Then it dies.

Jul 29, 2026

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2 min read

Your best work gets 45 seconds. Then it dies.

Not workslop, not thinkslop. The third failure finally has a name, and the fix isn't writing shorter.

Pallas Advisory

A website fed my AI scrambled Orwell. On purpose.

Jul 22, 2026

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2 min read

A website fed my AI scrambled Orwell. On purpose.

Same URL, two realities: my browser got the real article. Here's the 30-second check that catches it.

Pallas Advisory

Jul 15, 2026

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3 min read

The Week Everyone Agreed

Who catches your AI's mistakes?

Pallas Advisory

Your AI second brain: where does a wrong thing get caught?

Jul 8, 2026

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2 min read

Your AI second brain: where does a wrong thing get caught?

If the answer is "the model resolves contradictions," you're reading marketing.

Pallas Advisory

You're building agents without pricing them. The bill is coming.

Jul 1, 2026

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2 min read

You're building agents without pricing them. The bill is coming.

Big companies blew entire AI budgets in months. Small teams feel the same math sooner.

Pallas Advisory

65% of AI-agent deployments hit an incident last year. One question catches most of them.

Jun 24, 2026

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3 min read

65% of AI-agent deployments hit an incident last year. One question catches most of them.

Not access controls. Not audit logs. A checkpoint most teams skipped — and it isn't technical.

Pallas Advisory

I traced 8 marketing stats. 5 led to dead sources.

Jun 17, 2026

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3 min read

I traced 8 marketing stats. 5 led to dead sources.

One was retracted by its own author four years ago. It's still everywhere.

Pallas Advisory

Jun 10, 2026

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3 min read

Is your week mostly doing, or deciding?

Two numbers this week just put a price tag on the answer.

Pallas Advisory

The "automate it after 3 times" rule is wrong.

Jun 3, 2026

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3 min read

The "automate it after 3 times" rule is wrong.

It hides two different decisions inside one sentence. Most repeated work needs judgment, not a script.

Pallas Advisory

85% of workers report AI saves them hours. Almost none can tell you where those hours went.

May 27, 2026

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2 min read

85% of workers report AI saves them hours. Almost none can tell you where those hours went.

The hours are real. The free time isn't.

Pallas Advisory

May 20, 2026

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3 min read

If your IT team blocks AI, read this

Three moves to make before you accept the lockdown, and what it tells you if none of them work.

Pallas Advisory

One question sorts every task you'll do this week

Your best work gets 45 seconds. Then it dies.

A website fed my AI scrambled Orwell. On purpose.

The Week Everyone Agreed

Your AI second brain: where does a wrong thing get caught?

You're building agents without pricing them. The bill is coming.

65% of AI-agent deployments hit an incident last year. One question catches most of them.

I traced 8 marketing stats. 5 led to dead sources.

Is your week mostly doing, or deciding?

The "automate it after 3 times" rule is wrong.

85% of workers report AI saves them hours. Almost none can tell you where those hours went.

If your IT team blocks AI, read this

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