Tulips, Tracks, and Tokens
Quentin Toulemonde This week, I would like to come back to a word that has been circulating with increasing frequency in the financial press, and increasing discomfort in boardrooms: bubble. Not whether…
Quentin Toulemonde
The Lucky Draft
This week, I would like to come back to an observation that some of you may have done over the last few months when opening LinkedIn’s feed. We read about…
When the well runs dry
This week, my attention was caught by the increasingly frequent articles warning about the possibility that the ongoing Iranian conflict could lead to an oil shortage — with the major…
A Mind Of Its Own
Two years ago, the worry about generative AI in the enterprise was that it might say something untrue. Today, the worry is that it might do something unwanted. Tomorrow’s worry,…
Skin In The Forecast – On Prediction Markets
This week, I would like to explore a subject that sits at the crossroads of my background as a scientific engineer, my experience in the business world, and my earlier…
The Humor Quotient
“Humor is reason gone mad.” – Groucho Marx This week, I want to talk about a subject that is rarely addressed seriously in the professional world: humor at work. No…
Private Assets, Public Debt
Far from the tumult of global stock markets and heavily publicized geopolitical news, the hushed world of private assets is beginning to shake at its foundations. Rising interest rates, seizing…
Regression to the mean
This week, I want to address the AI craze currently sweeping through our professional environments. Some companies, like Accenture, have moved so aggressively that they have reportedly begun tying promotions…
Lost in transmission
It is now six years since the global pandemic fundamentally upended our collective understanding of the professional landscape. What began as a forced experiment in survival has matured into a…
The génie in the bottle
This week, I’d like to focus on a refrain we hear with every new breakthrough in artificial intelligence. The narrative suggests that the engineering profession is facing extinction, and that…