HeyJaredJess Von Bank
I write at the intersection of work, technology, and humanity. You’ll find essays here that challenge orthodoxy and make space for possibility. All are written with the future—and the people who will live in it—in mind.
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Notes from the Blank Page: What AI-Native Really Looks Like (opens the original)
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Unfortunately, becoming AI-native is a lot like getting fit.Small behaviors, repeated consistently, matter more than grandiose displays of brilliance.Almost no company gets a blank page.Existing companies inherit an org chart, job architecture, approval chains, technology debt, budget cycles, and management layers built to move information from the people who have it to the people permitted to act on it.Then they attempt to become “AI-native” without disturbing any of it.We do not have that excu
Your AI Adoption Gap Is Actually an Adaptability Gap (opens the original)
Intelligence Is Not the Same as Humanity (opens the original)
Your AI Strategy Has Produced Everything Except a Return (opens the original)
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Around this time last year, MIT’s Project NANDA published a blistering report. Despite an estimated $30–40 billion in enterprise generative AI investment, the report found that 95% of the integrated pilots it examined had produced no measurable P&L impact.The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025 attempted to shine a floodlight on the widening chasm between high adoption and low transformation.We threw it away.We picked apart the methodology, used the study’s research flaws as a scapegoat,
Purge the Business Before You Sprinkle AI Glitter on It (opens the original)
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