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Of AI and witch hunting

By Jenna Inouye • 08/08/2026 • ⏱️ 9 min read

Witch hunts are fun, right? Not only do you get to feel better than someone else... but you also get to destroy them. The advent of AI has ushered in...

The Internet isn’t just dead: It’s full of zombies

By Jenna Inouye • 07/16/2026 • ⏱️ 4 min read

By now, we all know about dead internet theory, a conspiracy-turned-reality that asserts that most Internet traffic and content is driven by bots. But something that is dead...

why all the tech guys write like this

By Jenna Inouye • 03/01/2026 • ⏱️ 2 min read

It was almost 11 at night when the founder called me. “I don’t know why I’m having problems with this project,” he said in lieu of greeting. “Why...

“Assistive AI vs Generative AI” and the curse of common sense

By Jenna Inouye • 02/12/2026 • ⏱️ 4 min read

“It isn’t generative AI; it’s assistive AI. Generative AI is the bad kind, assistive AI is the good kind." I’ve been seeing it a lot lately....

The state of the IT hiring market, from the experts on the ground

By Jenna Inouye • 08/02/2024 • ⏱️ 11 min read

Is the sky falling? Is the bubble bursting? Are we chicken little, viewing the portents of a vast and illusory threat — or are we the android boy who cried cyborg...

Data disconnect: The magic of making poor decisions, even faster

By Jenna Inouye • 06/23/2024 • ⏱️ 5 min read

If you’re like most organizations, your data has become almost entirely decoupled from your broader strategy. This isn’t a revelation; it isn’t controversial: around 60% of companies...

The lost canonical: How gen AI ushers in the post-truth world

By Jenna Inouye • 05/24/2024 • ⏱️ 4 min read

As early as grade school, you learned to cite your sources. If you’re as old as I am, you were told not to use Wikipedia — slightly older still, and...

Broken narratives: how social media destroys chronological conversation flow

By Jenna Inouye • 05/11/2024 • ⏱️ 4 min read

It's 2024 and I don't think anyone, at this point, is arguing that social media is good for us. I'm not going to bother...

It’s time to bring back silos

By Jenna Inouye • 05/11/2024 • ⏱️ 4 min read

The protective spirit of the silo should be maintained, while leaders take on the additional cognitive burden of managing them as a whole and holistic system....