InnerVentures

  • The worsening content and app deluge and the choice trap

    AI makes content creation and distribution easy. The cost to create Apps is plummeting. It creates a choice trap and your attention is the victim. Ironically, AI can also be your salvation, providing you think intentionally and critically. If you thought the proliferation in content and apps had reached its peak, think again. AI has…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The difference between a strategy and a plan

    I watched an Instagram clip the other day. It blew me away with what I thought was an ingenious strategy. It led to a thought captured in the title of this post. And to unearth a now widespread video published by Harvard 2 years ago. It nails the thought perfectly and the title is: A…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Enterprise AI solutions hunting for problems

    We are still at that stage where the promise way exceeds the benefits. The verdict is still out. Yes we have the instinct that there is great benefit to be had. But showing the money remains elusive for most. We are at the value proof stage for Enterprise AI and this still requires deep work.…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    Common themes this week are the need for accelerated progress with AI experiments into production, especially with Agents. Building very specific Agents, targeting pain points or opportunities is key. Getting them into users’ hands and validating fast is crucial. Another theme is around creativity and how AI is either threatening it or enhancing it. Verdict…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • In fine form

    When busy work takes over, you can lose touch. Good for flow and hyper productivity but there are downsides. Check in on yourself. Writing helps – like I’m doing here. Attitude is key; fight for your passion but don’t deceive yourself. Have a fine day! I’ve experienced equal parts of this state recently. This post…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The perils of overdoing and an ode to being

    This is also an ode to human ingenuity, sense making, mindfulness and critical thinking. Especially at this time of year and point in time. This time of year being post festive season and holidays. When you have hopefully de-stressed from the past year’s hard slog and have a clear mind and before you get sucked…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Major forces shaping the future of work

    It’s mind blowing, the forces shaping how we work and will work in the future. They can be overwhelming or exhilarating, depending on your view, but you can’t ignore them. And they will be different depending on your viewpoint. These are mine. I met someone on LinkedIn. From an initial chat we progressed to a…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Identifying Technology Transformation S Curves for Modern Work

    Determining where the world of work is heading and how it is being transformed is not easy work and there are many great thinkers and institutions spending time on this. But for anyone leading a company or involved in the business of technology transformation, it’s imperative you do your own thinking. Here is mine. This…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Measuring adoption in your AI Transformation efforts – Copilot Dashboard

    Measurement is one of the main pillars I covered in this post (in the video): How to align your Employee Experience with your AI Transformation efforts. This post will deep dive on the topic and cover the tool made available to Copilot for Microsoft 365 customers whom I am working with to help them understand…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • In an age of more the value of less

    As the featured image suggests, this is a thought rocket, some sensemaking on the fly – essentially some quick thoughts on a recent development, announcement, something random, etc. In this post, it’s the latter, and I’m experimenting with a new format. The format is basically an Instagram post with multiple images I created, in a…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • SenseMaking from the Web

    The myth that remote work stifles innovation and creativity is gaining ground–but the same evidence shows that it was only true in the pre-2010s workplace Posted on January 3. The pendulum keeps swinging and this time, in this article, in favour of remote work. It posits, with evidence, that with the advent of social and…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Dont outsource all reasoning and communication to AI

    Charlie Munger (may he RIP) once said on AI: ‘I think old-fashioned intelligence works pretty well’. He was well known to have been sceptical of many things related to AI. Think what you may of him, he was a rather successful businessman who made many good decisions in his life, so I’d be inclined to…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Is Intention running the software in your head

    This is an alternative take on what I have written about before, Choose carefully how you spend your time. In that piece I riffed on Annie Dillard’s famous quote: “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” By that is ultimately meant, you become what you spend your time doing and…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The powers and limitations of generative AI in writing

    I think there are broadly three areas in which Generative AI is having an impact on creativity and/or productivity at work. I asked ChatGPT to elaborate on the three and the result I got is below. A great result if I may say and far better than I could have done in the time. So…

    Stephen Danelutti