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Ideas Happen!
This blog is where I lay it all out: ideas, insights, wins, stumbles, and the scar tissue that came with them. No fluff, just real stories and lessons from the trenches. If you want practical takeaways and straight talk shaped by experience, you’re in the right place.
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Infrastructure Intelligence Lab
70x or greater Return on Investment?… Piss of ______!!! Just check out some of the many quotes from our last cohort "I came on this course today to basically expand my knowledge and understanding of AI and the agents that are potentially available. Within the first hour it had paid for this course ten times over and you look forward to the rest because, yeah it's just mind opening." - Mitchell McGarry McGarry, Managing Director, Agonis Group “I was able to apply the learni
The challenge isn’t technical
The six million dollar man was onto something… we have the technology! (if you are under 50, Google it!) I fundamentally get it, my heavy technical background has driven my thinking that way & has thoroughly set my default thinking perspective to be tech-first. And let’s be honest, a back flipping robot is pretty cool (useless on a job site perhaps, but cool nevertheless). But after my 15+ years in construction robotics, there’s a sobering reality that I keep bumping into. “I
Robots can backflip, but struggle with steps...
After 15+ years in construction robotics, there is one truth I keep coming back to. The world feels genuinely scary right now. Gun attacks. Machetes. Random violence showing up in places that used to feel boring and safe. Even the daily commute carries tension that did not exist a decade ago. At least I can joke that if the robotics apocalypse arrives, all I need to do is step up a single stair and I am safe 🤖🪜 That line gets a laugh, but it lands because it reveals somethi
Reality kills “Good” ideas!
Why is it that some of the most promising academic projects and emerging tech startups seem to fail when hit with the cold water of reality? There is a gap, a misalignment of goals, a failure to communicate, something… I think it is because the best solution in the eyes of the idealistic creator is often not adoptable into the business as usual of the potential user business. As I talk about in my post The challenge isn’t technical . I completely get it, my VERY technical bac
BAU adoption begins with people and ends with proof
No one will look up to listen, everyone is too busy for you and your wondrous tech, How do you get the right people to take a moment to ‘look’ at what you have to offer, and to ‘understand’ what it will do for them? Everyone is hectic, there are a lot of burning fires that need immediate attention, business as usual comes first. How do you cut through that? Rèport created the initial opportunity. You are hard limited to attention spans that are under constant bombardment; you
Stop trying to boil the ocean and start boiling a cup of water instead
In my work I repeatedly encounter one debilitating pattern in early-stage innovation initiatives, ventures, research commercialisation endeavours, and in general, heavy-industry technology adoption. There is a natural tendency in risk-averse cultures to equate “new” with “risky,” and as a result the adoption of innovation stalls before impact is even proved. Decision-making becomes divided, scopes balloon, resources drain, and momentum dies. The risk-averse bias and its impac
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