I concur! Pre order before getting through passport control and the goods will be waiting for you. It’s dead easy. Rumour has it the staff are placing bets on the number of transactions… 🇳🇴

Data really becoming the new gold, no longer hidden by a layer of software pretending to be the gold.

Now-defunct companies selling their internal data for training: https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/

Signed up for a slack business+ trial, and there too a sign of data gatekeeping - time to try and own your data 🙏

I recently noticed Slack has restricted access to data downloads to a higher tier of subscription, not the first paid tier but the second one. Only public channel messages are downloadable. The same will happen for other apps, the moat will be your data, and the aim to make accessing data harder - complicated structures, training in a very custom solution that is so specialised you cannot leave.

Before: Big companies tried to harvest as much data as possible
Now: They need to protect it

Time to be aware of the data your organisation has, and the optionality you currently have in regards to the software you use and the licenses you have with the stewards of the information!

Trying to get some thoughts out these days, still working on making it interesting, but hopefully it's interesting to someone!

Wrote some thoughts about what knowledge organisations might want to think about when letting bigCorp add "smart AI" on their content for them.

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