LLMs Don't Reason, They Remember
LLMs don't reason, they remember what reasoning looked like. That's powerful within known domains, brittle outside them. Knowing where that boundary lies—and building systems that extend it—is the real skill now.
Excellence Architect for the Intelligence Age
For all of human history, business has been an operating system for scarce intelligence. Hierarchies to channel rare thinking upward. Processes to standardize it. Documentation to preserve it. Every structure exists to manage scarcity.
That operating system is becoming obsolete.
Not because AI is smarter than humans. It's alien—pattern-matching without intent, processing without accountability, generation without taste. When pattern-matching becomes abundant while human judgment remains precious, everything changes.
Not automation added to old structures. Not agents pretending to be human. A complete architectural rebuild.
Intelligence-native companies don't standardize thinking—their processes think. Hierarchies don't channel decisions—networks distribute intelligence. Growth isn't limited by headcount—it's limited by alignment.
The constraint that shaped all human organization is dissolving. Build for abundance or become obsolete.
Insights, strategies, and frameworks for leading in the AI era
LLMs don't reason, they remember what reasoning looked like. That's powerful within known domains, brittle outside them. Knowing where that boundary lies—and building systems that extend it—is the real skill now.
Smart people disagree violently on whether we're in a bubble. For most business leaders, the answer is simple: it doesn't matter. The capability is already here. What remains is tooling, change management—and knowing where to focus.
Despite $30–40B poured into GenAI, 95% of organizations report no measurable P&L impact. The bottleneck isn't the model — it's the missing process layer.
I'm currently building and advising across the stack. Leveraging my long experience in business excellence and technology, I'm focused on doing things the right way—never losing sight of what creates value.
8020 Excellence is my first commitment to this vision of intelligence-native businesses.
The patterns are emerging. The architecture is taking shape. I'm documenting what works—and what breaks—in The Intelligence Shift.
The Intelligence Shift
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