Q&A
Every q&a piece on Desk Theory, newest first.
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How to get your team to actually use AI
You gave the speech. You bought the seats. Three weeks later nobody's using it. The gap isn't access. It's adoption, and adoption follows the person at the top.
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Forget who's winning the harness wars. Pick one and start.
Hermes had a loud week and the timelines lit up. For a CEO, the winner of that fight matters far less than the fact that you still have not picked a side.
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Build the second brain before you build the agent
Everyone wants the agent. The ones that actually earn their keep are standing on a pile of your decisions, meetings, and notes. Build the pile first, and the agent has something to stand on.
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Which AI releases actually matter, and which can I ignore?
The majors ship one or two notable releases a week. A public tracker has already logged more than 300 model releases in 2026, across 49-plus organizations. You feel behind every Monday. You are not.…
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Why most AI agents fall apart in real work (and how to fix it)
The agent that nailed your demo is not getting dumber. It's running out of context. The fix is not a smarter model; it's setting the agent up to succeed.
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Why AI sounds confident when it's wrong (and how to catch it)
Lawyers keep getting sanctioned for filing briefs full of court cases that don't exist. The AI didn't flag a single one. It wrote them the way it writes everything: fluent, specific, and dead sure.