https://slowfast.ai/ Essays on the future, past and current of humans and technology. en-GB All rights reserved, Christian Lanng https://slowfast.ai/essays/gardeners-of-intelligence/ essay_gardeners_of_intelligence Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Growing the capability is one accomplishment and owning the business that forms around it is another, and the industry keeps paying for the first while reporting the second. https://slowfast.ai/essays/everyday-machines/ essay_everyday_machines Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Norman gave us the psychology of things, but we meet two thousand interfaces a day and forty doors, so the difference between his subject and ours is not the object but the dose. https://slowfast.ai/essays/fight-club/ essay_fight_club Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 When software costs almost nothing to make, the scarce thing is knowing what to build and proving it worked. https://slowfast.ai/essays/taste-is-radical-and-never-easy/ essay_taste_radical Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Software is getting cheaper. Taste is getting more expensive. https://slowfast.ai/essays/a-love-letter-to-consulting/ essay_love_letter_consulting Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000 The harder the AI problem, the more it needs somebody the client already trusts. https://slowfast.ai/essays/electric-dreams/ essay_electric_dreams Fri, 07 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000 Enterprises need their lovable software too. https://slowfast.ai/essays/cash-is-king/ essay_cash_is_king Sun, 08 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Revenue stopped being a signal about the product the moment we learned to book it four years ahead. https://slowfast.ai/essays/action-jack/ essay_action_jack Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000 The model was never the hard part. The context it was sent to act in was. https://slowfast.ai/essays/cruel-supply-chain-economics/ essay_supply_chain_economics Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Four inputs decide an AI business, and a start-up can afford an edge in none of them. https://slowfast.ai/essays/why-do-most-companies-die-so-fast/ essay_companies_die_so_fast Fri, 01 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 A city survives the bomb, and a company does not survive a bad decade. https://slowfast.ai/essays/digital-transformation-to-nowhere/ essay_digital_transformation Wed, 01 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Twenty years of transformation run like bridge building, for a job that was a playground. https://slowfast.ai/essays/back-to-the-future-of-user-interfaces/ essay_back_to_the_future_ui Sun, 15 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 The future of the user interface is a stone. https://slowfast.ai/essays/industrial-revolution-of-large-language-models/ essay_industrial_revolution_llms Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000 We spent twenty years teaching computers a universal business language, and then it stopped being necessary. https://slowfast.ai/essays/why-enterprise-software-sucks/ essay_enterprise_software_sucks Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Salesforce is an Oracle database with a few thousand buttons stuck to it. https://slowfast.ai/essays/hype-danger-and-the-real-promise-of-ai/ essay_hype_danger_promise Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Peak AI hype has buried the more interesting story — the cost of innovation is collapsing, and language may finally become the interface that makes work software serve the people using it. https://slowfast.ai/essays/current-of-commerce/ essay_current_of_commerce Tue, 01 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000 Every jump in this history began with people saying something to each other that could not be said before.