Selected Publications & Essays
Selected writing on AI governance, executive technology judgment, cloud, data, and the practical use of advanced systems. These pieces support the thinking behind Transcending Technobabble: how leaders can separate useful technology from fluent hype, misplaced confidence, and avoidable risk.
Featured External Publications
The Real Risk of AIOps: When Confidence Outpaces Evidence
Fierce Network · April 2026
A telecom-focused essay on how AI can accelerate premature certainty in production operations, and why leaders need better decision habits before confident answers outrun evidence.
Your AI Is Succeeding. That’s the Problem.
Fierce Network · April 2026
A practical argument for an “AI conscience”: a pre-execution governance layer that checks agentic AI actions against operational, contractual, legal, and human constraints before automation turns into consequence.
Core Thinking Behind Transcending Technobabble
Probabilistic Multi-Variant Reasoning: Turning Fluent LLM Answers Into Weighted Options
Toward Data Science · Human Guided AI Collaboration · January 2026
A practical framework for using AI to surface multiple plausible options, compare them against meaningful criteria, and keep human judgment in control. PMR is central to Transcending Technobabble because it shows how leaders can use AI to improve decision quality without accepting the first fluent answer as the answer.
Prediction Is Not Calculation
Medium · March 2026 · Deeper treatment also adapted for LinkedIn
A practical warning against paying for probabilistic answers to deterministic problems. The essay explains why fluent AI output should not be treated as calculation, verification, or authority of record, especially when exactness, repeatability, compliance, money, or production decisions matter.
The Real AI Divide Isn’t Adoption. It’s Trivial Use Versus Practical Use.
Published on Medium and LinkedIn · April 2026
A practical essay on why “AI adoption” is too weak a measure. The real divide is between shallow convenience use and practical fluency: using AI to learn faster, think better, produce stronger work, and still know when the tool is bluffing.
Domain-Aware Retrieval
Current work
A developing article lane on why many RAG projects plateau when retrieval finds related fragments but lacks the domain structure, constraints, relationships, and authority needed to improve judgment.
Practical AI Literacy
Accessible pieces written to help non-specialists understand where AI helps, where it fails, and why human judgment still matters.
Hippos, Corduroy, and Hallucinations
Published essay · Practical AI literacy
A playful teaching essay on hallucinations, prompting, context, typos, and why plausible AI output still needs human verification.
From Spell Check to AI: Why Using Tools Is Not Cheating
Published on LinkedIn · Practical AI literacy
A practical essay on AI as a tool, not a shortcut around thinking. The core lesson: using tools is not cheating when human judgment, purpose, and context remain intact.
AI Didn’t Read the Logs
Published essay · Practical AI use
A practical example of AI used beside the real tool of record, helping an engineer work more effectively without pretending the model had become the operational truth.
QBD and Cross-Disciplinary Thought Leadership
Some of Alan’s work explores Quantum Business Dynamics, a framework for modeling governed, verifiable relationships across business systems. This work is included here as cross-disciplinary thought leadership, not as a product pitch.
Quantum Business Dynamics
Book · Coauthored by Alan Nekhom
Alan is a coauthor of Quantum Business Dynamics, the foundational text for the QBD framework. QBD treats business activity as governed relationships serving specific goals, not merely as data moving through systems. It introduces Sources, Targets, Bridges, and biLinks as a way to model validation, consent, provenance, obligations, and later verification across complex business networks.
Private and Compliant Fractional Ownership Without Smart Contracts
Block Magnates · QBD and distributed-ledger tokenization
A QBD-based paper on how distributed-ledger-tokenized assets can support private, compliant fractional ownership without relying on conventional smart-contract assumptions.
The Particle Physics of Business
Medium · December 2024 · QBD explainer
A plain-language essay introducing the relationship-first thinking behind Quantum Business Dynamics.