A few months ago I wrote about how “image concerns” were quietly suppressing AI adoption. (In this video, RamBOT, my digital twin, unpacks what that means for organizations.) People will underuse tools that improve performance if they fear it signals lower competence, less effort, or weaker expertise. This week, Harvard Business Review published “How AI Damages Work Relationships—and Where It Can Actually Help.” It surfaces a complementary dynamic. → AI can increase output bu

EY leaders recently noted that “inexperience” is a junior consultant’s biggest advantage in the age of AI. Junior consultants arrive without assumptions, a blank sheet of paper that lets them challenge how work gets done. EY’s right — but the “inexperience advantage” isn’t about age. It’s about mindset. Anyone, whether junior or senior, who approaches work from first principles and leans into AI has asymmetric advantage. A 25-year old or a 25-year veteran who genuinely que

Last week I shared Claude's capabilties in Excel. But can it do slides? Short answer: yes. And it's worth your attention. I recorded a quick video of Claude in PowerPoint to review recent insights on IBM ×  Anthropic  COBOL update.  You can see Claude in PPT putting it onto a slide and editing it live.  What you'll see is Claude working inside PowerPoint, reading my template suggestions, and building native editable slides. Not static images. Real shapes, real charts, real di