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Prosaic Times: Your business is a dynamic system
Use graphs and agents to model business domains and dynamic systems
 • James Kaplan
Prosaic Times: how enterprise technology will evolve to shape tomorrow’s world
Five optimistic hypotheses crystalized over the break
 • James Kaplan
Prosaic Times: Can Moneyball for business writing produce victory in the cognitive domain?
Writing for dopamine hits and retention; content as code
 • James Kaplan
Prosaic Times: If you can code well, you can write well – and you must write well
In building a system you traffic in user experience, structure and semantics. These provide the timeless building blocks of good writing.
 • James Kaplan
Six questions you have to answer about technology risk in the AI age
And how a wall-mounted storage controller shows all technology management is risk management
 • James Kaplan
Prosaic Times: The tyranny of the use case and the need for enterprise tech doctrine
The “we need better technology strategy” issue
 • James Kaplan
Prosaic Times: LLMs forget; enterprises can’t -- three possible ways forward
Context compression and the challenge of stochastic results
 • James Kaplan
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Prosaic Times is a weekly newsletter exploring the wonder and frustration of enterprise technology through the lens of history, economics, political science, psychology, epistemology and sardonic humor.
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