I flew into Punta Cana expecting two days of connectivity policy. Useful context, adjacent to what I actually build. That was wrong. The Caribbean Digital Transformation Accelerator, hosted by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, turned out to be a compressed education in the machinery that decides whether an AI company in Georgetown can ever operate at regional scale. Cables, spectrum, procurement law, concessional finance, and the political economy binding them together.
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We cannot make more time. It is the one honest constraint every professional shares, no matter the field or the title. Yet over two Saturdays this July, more than one hundred professionals here in Guyana spent their mornings learning how to reclaim much of it. That was the whole idea behind The Intelligence Worker, the opening workshop in the national AI-Ready Professional series, which I designed and delivered. It was offered completely free to every participant, courtesy of the Industry and Innovation Unit of the Office of the Prime Minister.…
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This morning I took a walk through the park with my son. Nothing unusual about that. We try to move our bodies most days, and the walking is usually when the real conversations happen. But somewhere along the path, between the trees and our own long shadows stretched out on the pavement, the talk turned to the things I most want him to carry through life. Power. Presence. Who we really are underneath the roles we play. I had my phone with me, so I pressed record. Just a father thinking out loud with his boy.
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