image source: NanoBananaLast night in NYC, I watched two different rooms fail to find each other.In one, people had real problems but no tools to solve them. In the other, people had every tool imaginable but no real problems to solve. The first was a happy hour full of operators. Senior people with teams, budgets, and real constraints. We spoke about career paths, of family life, of starting and running businesses, of pressing current policies defining our city. While AI was a hot topic, it ...