KoncentriK | Tactics for Navigating Tech & Power

The Cult of Visionary Tyrants

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

Oct 14 • 

Damien Kopp

2

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 • 

Damien Kopp

2

2

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 • 

Damien Kopp

2

2

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

5

My Summer Reads (2025)

Where Tech, Power and the World Collide

Aug 3 • 

Damien Kopp

1

July 2025

Why Simulating Strategy Is Not Intelligence

What the latest research on Game Theory and LLMs reveals about true machine reasoning

Jul 21 • 

Damien Kopp

3

2

June 2025

Who Really Controls Your AI?

Inside the Global Struggle for AI Sovereignty. And Why Infrastructure, Regulation, and Geopolitics Are Defining the Future of Power

Jun 23 • 

Damien Kopp

2

Horrible Bosses: Entitled by Title

Be More Than the Role. It’s Only a Show.

Jun 2 • 

Damien Kopp

3

May 2025

TechnoPolitics: A C-Suite Playbook for Mitigating Geopolitical Risk Across the Tech Stack

A field guide for CIOs, CTOs & CDOs facing a fragmented world.

May 15 • 

Damien Kopp

1

April 2025

Understanding Extraterritorial Overreach: Navigating Global Sanctions, Tech Stacks, and Data Governance Risks in 2025

When sovereignty gets coded into infrastructure, compliance doesn’t stop at the border.

Apr 16 • 

Damien Kopp

1

March 2025

The Illusion of Intelligence: Why LLMs Are Not the Thinking Machines We Hope For

A Deep Dive into the Fundamental Differences Between AI and Human Intelligence

Mar 31 • 

Damien Kopp

3

4

The AI - Energy Paradox: Will AI Spark a Green Energy Revolution Or Deepen the Global Energy Crisis?

A Strategic Guide for Corporate Decision-Makers

Mar 13 • 

Damien Kopp

2