Kerson AI Solutions
A cloud AI chat feels weightless. Type a question, get an answer, close the tab. Nothing about the experience suggests machinery. I spent the last few months building the opposite: a sovereign AI knowledge system for a client, designed to answer questions from a fixed set of a vessel’s technical documentation, with no cloud dependency...
People are angry at AI. They call it slop. They say it has no soul. They organise campaigns to report and remove it from their feeds. These same people are also letting AI filter their spam, shape their playlists, decide what they read next, and predict what they’ll want before they ask for it. So...
Most people hear “aphantasia” and think: no pictures in the mind. That’s true. But the more interesting story is what’s missing underneath the pictures. The Strange Finding Nobody Talks About In 2025, a paper in Current Biology reported something quietly disorienting: in people with aphantasia, imagery content could still be decoded from activity in the primary visual...
A decade with Peter Gabriel's orbit, LEGO figures in 2014, ChatGPT in 2023, a Stable Diffusion competition, and what the whole arc reveals about visibility, signal, and what AI actually changes. In September 2014, a LEGO figure I had built and posted on Instagram was spotted by Peter Gabriel's social media team. They emailed me....
Everyone talks about the AI Capability Gap, the gap between what AI can do and what organisations can actually use. Most organisations struggling with AI are dealing with two or three gaps at the same time. They just haven’t named them yet. I call them the Five Cs. Gap The Problem The Signal Capability People...
A note before you read: This started as a brainstorming exercise, mapping my own ecosystem to think through what it actually does. It isn’t my most polished piece. But writing it opened up a line of thinking that’s led somewhere genuinely new. I’ll share that soon. For now, consider this the origin story. The Myth:...
Twenty years ago, if you asked someone what reasoning meant, they would describe a process that happened inside a human mind. If you asked about judgment, they would talk about wisdom earned slowly through experience. Autonomy meant the freedom of a person to choose their own path. Consciousness meant being awake in the world. Today...
Look at this image. A caveman squatting in the dirt, holding up a rock, asking a cat wearing a GPT collar whether something is true. Gems scattered on the ground, a cord coiled at his feet. It is funny. It is also, uncomfortably, accurate. The Most Powerful Tools in History. Accessed Via a Text Box....
This piece builds on an earlier essay I wrote, “Why We Think in Fences, Guns and Cats,” which explores why we mix ideas like Chesterton’s Fence, Chekhov’s Gun and Schrödinger’s Cat into a single mental toolbox for thinking about risk and systems. In that post, I deliberately spliced metaphors and sayings together; here, I push...
How a 1990s desktop database quietly evolved into today’s low-code and AI orchestration platforms Thanks to my good friend, Fabrice, who shared an article called “Why Microsoft Access is dying (and what is replacing it).” Fabrice knows I was a big fan of Access back in the day. But the article made me think about...