Microsoft's Chief People Officer Reveals the Playbook on Scaling AI Without Losing Trust
The real bottleneck to AI isn't the code; it's our own ego. We're so hooked on being the "expert" that we've forgotten how to be beginners again, and in a world changing this fast, that's a dangerous ...
23 Maalis 52min
Trump's AI Framework Is Here, Your Retirement Is at Risk, and Engineers Are Quitting for Tokens
March 20, 2026: The White House dropped its national AI legislative framework today — I go through the whole thing, because there's a provision about preempting state AI laws that is one of the most...
20 Maalis 49min
NVIDIA CEO Says Leaders Lack Imagination, Cognizant's $4.5T Warning, & The Case Against the AI Apocalypse
March 19, 2026: Jensen Huang had one of the biggest weeks in tech at Nvidia's GTC — but his sharpest line wasn't about chips. When asked why companies are laying off workers, he said simply: because t...
19 Maalis 44min
Liberal Arts Makes A Comeback, CEOs Freeze Hiring, & GDP Sees Ghosts
March 18, 2026: Two-thirds of CEOs are freezing hiring while betting billions on AI — and a gender economist argues they're cutting the very people needed to make those bets pay off. A 7,000-word Subs...
18 Maalis 41min
Meta's Layoff Math, FedEx's Agent Army, & A Crazy AI Productivity Forecast
March 17, 2026: Five major AI models shipped in a single week in February. Your company's training budget grew 5%. Cathie Wood told Bloomberg this morning that AI is already pushing productivity above...
17 Maalis 52min
The New Rules for People Leaders in an AI-Integrated Workplace - Emily Field, Chief People Officer of LPL Financial
Many managers today spend more time on paperwork and individual tasks than actually coaching their teams. This lack of true leadership hurts the employee experience and stops a business strategy from ...
16 Maalis 53min
The Hidden Cost of AI Nobody Is Counting & Why Tesla Is Hiring While Others Are Firing
March 13, 2026: Most companies are cutting headcount to fund AI — but do they actually know what AI costs? When agentic AI runs autonomously overnight, the compute bill can hit $120,000 to $270,000 a ...
13 Maalis 38min
Why Companies Only Talk About AI Fear And Never the Opportunity
March 12, 2026: Companies are failing to communicate the real promise and potential of AI to their people. Sam Altman stood in front of BlackRock and admitted nobody knows what to do about the labor-c...
12 Maalis 43min
