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December 2025

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
Things I was too stupid to know when I joined McKinsey’s Technology Practice — and how AI changes that
From a mechanical to a humanistic view of enterprise technology
 • James Kaplan
Prosaic Times, Issue #3 -- December 7, 2025
What I was too stupid to know when I joined McKinsey's Technology Practice -- the journey from a mechanical to a humanistic view of enterprise…
 • James Kaplan
Prosaic Times: Let’s not have software that looks like Tyson’s Corner
AI may make it a little easier to make technology beautiful
 • James Kaplan
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