Strategy

The Missing Prompt

The Missing Prompt: The One That Makes the Other Nine Worth Running

A genre of social media post promises the prompts that replace McKinsey: the SWOT, the market analysis, the deck. Nine prompts, sometimes ten. Every list omits the same one, the prompt that checks whether the AI got any of it wrong. That omission is the tell. The deck was never the product. The checking was, and it still has to be human.

Palantir Skipped the Degree, Not the Filter

palantir skipped the degree not the filter

Palantir didn’t drop its standards when it dropped the degree. It started judging what people can actually do. Families weighing college should make the same move.

We can’t make wise decisions if we misinterpret basic facts

We cannot make wise decisions if we misinterpret basic facts

Much of what we feel about policy choices is shaped by what others tell us about the likely impact of those decisions. Sadly, many will choose unwisely against their own interests due to financial illiteracy, misinformation, or both.