The word 'AI' has become too abstract. Instead, I use four concepts — the Runner, the Grid, the Countermeasures, the Trace — to describe how AI actually behaves in daily product work. A Runner brings options, not outcomes: fast, reckless, useful, but you're still responsible for the result.
· continue reading →Rolling out AI with 'transform or die' energy breeds avoidance, cynicism, and quiet resistance — not adoption. Research shows early resistance is data, not defiance. The real question isn't how to deploy AI faster, but how to help teams move from perceiving threat to developing agency.
· continue reading →When skills you spent years mastering become a prompt, it shakes your identity. People aren't resisting AI because they're stubborn — often they're grieving a version of themselves that felt competent, needed, respected. AI anxiety is frequently misdiagnosed as resistance when it's actually loss.
· continue reading →AI tools are incredible at making hard things feel easy — that's both the magic and the trap. In medicine, marketing, and education, the gap between having a powerful tool and using it wisely is growing. A lightsaber doesn't make you a Jedi; small 'Jedi habits' of critical thinking do.
· continue reading →Roughly a third of children invent imaginary friends — not as a disorder, but as a social simulator. Adults rebranded the same mechanism as 'inner child work' or IFS parts. Now AI agents fill that role, always available, always confident. The question is: who's steering whom?
· continue reading →About
I'm Casey — a product and technology leader living in Brandenburg, about an hour east of Berlin. For 12+ years I've helped companies like IKEA, ING, and Volkswagen cut through digital complexity. Now I run CDiT, a consultancy built on one principle: give people their time back.
I live with Emma, two dogs named Fimme and Sien, and a growing collection of infrastructure projects with absurd codenames. When I'm not consulting, I'm at CrossFit, walking the dogs through the Brandenburg countryside, or building things that probably don't need building.
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