Thoughts
On tech, AI, business, and what actually works.
October 5, 2026
A flydubai co-pilot allegedly attacked his captain with a crash axe on a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight; a wounded captain, a plumber and two spare pilots saved 174 people. The near miss exposes the threat post-9/11 cockpit security never addressed: the person already inside.
September 14, 2026
Using tomorrow’s tools can reveal tomorrow’s needs. Turning that glimpse into a business requires evidence that someone else wants the result.
September 8, 2026
An AI-designed lung drug made six independent aging clocks run backward. But the study was a retrospective read of banked blood from 42 terminally ill patients, and the Phase III trial now running has no aging endpoint at all. What the rentosertib result actually shows.
August 26, 2026
Terms governing use of Dhima Consulting's internal QuickBooks Online integration: license grant, authorized users, restrictions, warranty disclaimers, limitation of liability, and governing law.
August 26, 2026
How Dhima Consulting handles accounting data accessed through its internal QuickBooks Online integration: what is accessed, how it is used and stored, who it is disclosed to, and how to revoke access.
August 22, 2026
Four AI labs spent 2026 racing to sell you a colleague made of software. The benchmarks say the best agent completes one realistic task in five, reliability hasn't improved in two years, and the standards war everyone expected never happened. The real contest is over the layer nobody demos.
August 16, 2026
Strip James Watt's steam engine out of history and Britain in 1800 is poorer by one tenth of one percent. Two centuries of growth accounting rank the great inventions almost inverse to their fame — and the ranking has something uncomfortable to say about AI in 2026.
August 15, 2026
A twelve-word tweet in July 2026 set off a new discipline: designing networks of AI agents instead of prompting one. Inside the evidence — Anthropic's 45-agent swarm, OpenAI's zero-hand-written-code product, the MAST failure study — and why the human's job is becoming org design plus anchors.
August 12, 2026
Albania legalized five-star development inside protected areas three weeks before Jared Kushner unveiled his resort renderings. Two years on: €110 million frozen by prosecutors, a contested Ottoman-era deed, and the largest protest movement since the fall of communism.