Microsoft shipped associated identities for Fabric items last week. On April 30th, Copilot and AI capabilities expand to every paid Fabric SKU down to F2. Multi-agent orchestration in Copilot Studio just went GA with native Fabric integration. And the March update gave notebooks native Copilot abilities to diagnose execution failures, suggest fixes, and generate code against your Lakehouse schema with full metadata awareness. That is a lot of new capability hitting a lot of new surfaces in a very short window. I am telling you this not as a recap. I am telling you this because I work in … [Continue reading]
Copilot in Notebooks are the Easy Part. AI Governance is the Real Rollout Project
April 16, 2026 By Leave a Comment
The Best Thing Falcon Does Is Not Think
April 14, 2026 By Leave a Comment
My first interaction with my OpenClaw instance, Falcon, cost me five dollars. I.e. my hello world conversation. That was eye-opening. I turned on OpenClaw, typed "Hi," and started asking basic questions about what was possible. Just getting oriented. Within minutes I'd burned through credits on what amounted to small talk. That was the moment I realized this wasn't going to work the way I expected. I had assumed the magic was the conversation. Talk to your agent, tell it what to do, and watch it handle things. That's the promise, and honestly, that promise is what drew me to OpenClaw in … [Continue reading]
Part 3 of 3: The Already Conscious Problem
April 8, 2026 By Leave a Comment
Why the Real Danger Has Nothing to Do With AI Waking Up If you've been following along with parts one and two of this series, here's the quick recap. Part one: tl;dr; AI is not conscious. It's a brain in a jar surrounded by plumbing. It lacks the substrate, continuity, stakes, and emergence that seem essential to consciousness. There is no "who" inside. There is no oneness that lives. Part two: tl;dr; We need a better term for what AI actually is. I proposed "synthetic consciousness," a fundamentally different phenomenon from biological consciousness the same way a 747's flight is a … [Continue reading]
Part 2 of 3: Synthetic Consciousness
April 7, 2026 By Leave a Comment
A Better Way to Talk About What AI Actually Is, and Where the Trajectory Might Lead If you missed part one of this series, I'd encourage you to start there. tl;dr; I made the case that AI is not conscious. Not because AI is dumb (it isn't), but because it lacks the substrate, continuity, stakes, and emergence that seem essential to whatever consciousness actually is. AI is a brain in a jar surrounded by plumbing. Impressive, powerful, but not a living, integrated whole. That said, part one left me with a problem I want to tackle head on. If AI isn't conscious, and I don't … [Continue reading]
Part 1 of 3: A Brain in a Jar – AI Isn’t Conscious
April 6, 2026 By Leave a Comment
If you've been anywhere near tech news over the past few months, you've noticed something unusual happening. The conversation about AI has shifted. We're no longer just debating whether AI will take our jobs or write better code than we can. We've … [Continue reading]
I Run OpenClaw. Here’s What I Hope Microsoft Gets Right.
April 2, 2026 By Leave a Comment
A few days ago, Omar Shahine posted an announcement on LinkedIn that caught my attention. He announced his new job at Microsoft! His mission? Bring OpenClaw and personal AI agents to Microsoft 365! His TL;DR is that Microsoft just made a Corporate … [Continue reading]
Part 2: Is OpenClaw Everything AI Promises to Be? Here’s Why It Actually Proves Suleyman Wrong.
February 16, 2026 By Leave a Comment
If you missed part one of this series, I'd encourage you to start there. The short version: Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft AI CEO, recently predicted that most white-collar professional tasks will be fully automated within 12 to 18 months. I argued that … [Continue reading]
Part 1: AI Will Replace White-Collar Work in 18 Months? Let’s Talk About That.
February 13, 2026 By Leave a Comment
If you've been anywhere near a tech news, you've probably seen the headlines. Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, dropped what I'd say is quite a bombshell in a recent interview with the Financial Times, claiming that AI will achieve human-level … [Continue reading]
Your #ESPC25 Game Plan: Maximize Your Conference Experience Before You Arrive
November 11, 2025 By Leave a Comment
#ESPC25 is just around the corner, taking place this December 1st through the 4th, in Dublin, Ireland! We're going back to Dublin! If you’re anything like me, you’re already buzzing with anticipation. Whether you’re a first-time attendee or a … [Continue reading]
Insights from “The Next Decade in Data, Intelligence, and Technology” a Keynote by Rafal Lukawiecki at ESPC 2023
December 18, 2023 By Leave a Comment
In the ever-evolving landscape of data, intelligence, and technology, staying ahead of the curve is not just a choice, rather a necessity. Every year since 2014 I make a late fall trek to Europe to attend ESPC, the premier European focused Microsoft … [Continue reading]
