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2026 Tech Provocations

10 Really Uncomfortable Questions Leaders and Builders Must Answer This Coming Year

Jan 30 • Damien Kopp

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What Does AI Really Do to Cash Flows? An Operator’s Guide for Private Equity

Field notes from an AI practitioner on turning AI ambition into measurable EBITDA and growth for investors.

Published on Asia Tech Lens • Jan 28

December 2025

A Year In Review: The Three Questions That Shaped Tech Strategy In 2025

What 2025 revealed about intelligence, power, and leading through uncertainty

Dec 31, 2025 • Damien Kopp

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When HR and Technology Co-Design the Future of Work

How do you grow the business significantly without growing headcount at the same pace?

Dec 19, 2025 • Damien Kopp

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Reading the U.S. National Security Strategy as a Technology Blueprint

A technopolitical reading of AI, infrastructure, standards, and enterprise risk

Dec 15, 2025 • Damien Kopp

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The Dependency Economy of AI

Why sovereignty is becoming the new competitive frontier — and what 25 national strategies reveal about the world’s real chokepoints.

Published on Asia Tech Lens • Dec 4, 2025

November 2025

The Battle of the Mind: 120km to Clarity

Testing what stays with you when everything else drops

Nov 18, 2025 • Damien Kopp

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Media Revolutions from Gutenberg to TikTok

What the 19th-century press explosion reveals about today’s AI-driven content economy.

Nov 5, 2025 • Damien Kopp

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October 2025

The Cult of Visionary Tyrants

Why abrasive leaders seem to succeed while principled leaders tend to remain in the shadows?

Oct 14, 2025 • Damien Kopp

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September 2025

Apple’s China Gamble: When Market Logic Turns Into Geopolitics

Reflections on Patrick McGee’s Apple in China through a technopolitics lens.

Sep 14, 2025 • Damien Kopp

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Winning the Battle for Trust When Truth is Fragmented

Quantum Narratives and Corporate Chaos: Why Business Leaders Must Rethink Truth, Trust, and Strategy in the Technopolitical Age

Sep 1, 2025 • Damien Kopp

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August 2025

Agentic AI Is Not What You Think

Autonomy is still a mirage: here’s the cost, control, and governance reality no one’s putting in the keynote slides.

Aug 14, 2025

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