Lessons
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The Consulting Wedge: What the Anthropic-Blackstone JV Actually Means for Accountants
Anthropic just launched a $1.5B joint venture to embed engineers inside enterprises. The obvious read is AI replacing consultants. The real read is more interesting — and more important for CPAs.
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Automate First, Cut Second
The IRS cut 28,000 employees before its AI was ready. The GAO says the program is now at serious risk. Here’s what CPAs need to know about AI workforce sequencing.
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The Unlocked Side Door: Why Your Employees Are Your Biggest AI Risk
Your employees aren’t trying to create security risks when they use AI — but they might be doing it anyway. Here’s why internal users are the biggest AI governance challenge at professional services firms.
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Who Should Own AI? The Data Points to the CFO.
Only 2% of companies have CFO-led AI accountability — but when they do, 76% achieve strong AI value. Here’s why that gap matters for every finance professional.
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AI Accounting Jobs: What the Data Actually Says About AI and the Labor Market
I keep seeing the same two headlines about AI and jobs. Anthropic just dropped a report that lands in the uncomfortable middle. They tried to measure what AI is actually doing in the labor market right now — not what it could do. Their main result is pretty blunt: If you work in accounting or finance, this matters.…
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What Is AI-Washing? How Block’s 40% Layoff Became a Case Study
There’s a new playbook in corporate America, and it goes like this: announce a big layoff, say AI made it necessary, watch your stock go up. Block — the fintech company behind Square and Cash App — ran this play almost perfectly in February 2026. CEO Jack Dorsey announced the elimination of roughly 4,000 jobs,…
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Sycophantic AI and Belief Distortion: Why Chatbots Agree With You and How That Can Break Professional Judgment
I have been using AI the same way a lot of professionals do. Quick research. Quick validation. Quick “does this make sense?” Then I read a new Princeton study (February 2026) that made me stop and rethink the whole workflow. Because the problem is not that AI gets things wrong sometimes. The problem is that…
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Warner Bros. Discovery Acquisition Update: Paramount Skydance Wins the Bidding War (For Now)
I thought this one was basically done. Back in December 2025 Netflix looked like it had Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) locked up. Then Paramount Skydance kept showing up with higher offers. More pressure. More tactics. More financing. By February 27 2026 Netflix walked away and Paramount Skydance became the signed winner. This post is the…
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The 40% Tax: How Task Switching Steals Your Best Thinking Hours (And What To Do About It)
Yesterday I was trying to push through a deep piece of work. The kind where you need your whole brain. Then the pings started. A couple were legit. A couple were “quick questions.” Then came the classic line: “It’ll only take two minutes. Can you hop on a quick call?” That’s the trap. Because it’s…
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The Structural Rise of RPOs and Purchase Obligations (And Why Nvidia’s $95.2B Number Matters)
I keep a running list of “footnote metrics” that tell me more than revenue does. The kind of stuff you only see if you actually read the 10-K. Not the highlights. The footnotes. Lately one of those metrics has been screaming: purchase obligations and remaining performance obligations (RPOs). This lesson started for me as a…