Start with these nine.
89 articles and counting. If you're new, this is the order I'd read them in: what to check before you buy anything, how to build and govern your first agent, and what actually changes in how you work.
Is Your Business Ready for AI? Start With These Five Questions
The diagnostic to run before you evaluate a single AI tool.
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Why Most AI Projects Fail (And What to Do About It)
The failure-rate numbers, and what actually explains them.
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The Avenger Tower Fallacy: Why Your AI Strategy Is Failing Before It Starts
The sequencing mistake behind most AI budgets.
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How to Build Your First AI Agent at Work: A Simple, Step-by-Step Guide
The build order that works, in plain English, for your first agent.
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Beginning Your Journey: Identifying Tasks for Quality, Traceable, Auditable AI Agents
How to decide which tasks are actually safe to hand to an agent.
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Messy Data Is Why Most AI Projects Fail (Fix This First)
Fix this before you evaluate a single vendor.
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Shadow AI Is Already Inside Your Organisation
The AI risk already inside your organisation, whether you deployed it or not.
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AI Is Not Coming for ‘Jobs’ – It Is Coming for Tasks. How Senior Leaders Can Exploit That Shift.
What actually changes for how you work, argued from tasks, not job titles.
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The Governed Cognitive Layer: What Enterprise AI Needs Beyond OSI's Seven Layers
The framework that ties the rest of this together.
Read article →That's the path. Everything else is at the full archive, organised by topic if you want to go deeper on one thing, or the frameworks if you'd rather start from the methodology than the writing.
I picked these nine because they're the ones I'd hand a smart friend who asked 'okay, where do I actually start with this.' Not the most popular, not the most recent, the ones that hold up. If you read all nine and still have a question none of them answered, that's usually the most useful email I get. Send it.
