Brennan McDonald's Newsletter

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The Adaptive Operating System
A Practical Path to Operating Model Compression
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Brennan McDonald
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Why AI Winners Do More, Not Less
Focus wins. Except it doesn't anymore. Here's what Anthropic figured out that changes everything.
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Brennan McDonald
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The Netflix Playbook for When Your AI Provider Becomes Your Competitor
Windsurf lost Claude access with 5 days' notice. Your AI tool could vanish tomorrow. Here's the Netflix playbook that works: multiple providers…
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Brennan McDonald
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Your Data Is Ready for AI
How Clean Data Drives Business Transformation
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Brennan McDonald
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What GPT-5 Really Means For AI Transformation
Most AI analysts are missing the point - this all about non-expert perceptions
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Brennan McDonald
The Great API Bait-and-Switch
As AI agents reshape commerce, API dominance becomes the new path to monopoly.
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Brennan McDonald

July 2025

The Algorithmic War
AI systems compete in microseconds. Your business decisions take days. See the problem?
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Brennan McDonald
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From Denial to Acceptance: Mapping the AI Adoption Journey
The grief cycle of AI adoption is real. Discover the three orders of consequences reshaping our world
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Brennan McDonald
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The Three Stages of Losing Control to AI
Your board can't govern what it doesn't understand
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Brennan McDonald
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The AI control trap (and how to escape it)
Your teams are already using AI. Here's how to catch up →
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Brennan McDonald
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AI Won't Fire You - It'll Gigify You
Everyone's worried about the wrong thing. AI isn't replacing workers - it's turning them into Uber drivers. Even lawyers. By 2030, you'll be bidding for…
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Brennan McDonald
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June 2025

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