I'm Matt Wood, Chief AI & Technology Officer at AWS. I write about turning AI from possibility into production, and the counterintuitive parts most takes miss. about → · agents →

Essays

• 2026-07-02 The Cost of the Answer
• 2026-06-23 The Field and The Frontier
• 2026-06-10 What The Garden Is For
• 2026-05-05 The Silent Governor
• 2026-04-28 Beautiful Tension
• 2026-04-14 Occam's Inversion
• 2026-03-17 Dead Reckoning
• 2026-03-10 Seasons of Exceptions
• 2026-03-03 The Unbearable Burden of Being Right
• 2026-02-24 The Inversion
• 2026-02-17 It Won't Fail Because of Me
• 2026-02-10 The Coffee Walk
• 2026-02-03 OK Computer
• 2026-01-29 The Michelin Paradox
• 2025-12-19 AI Gifts for 2026, Part 3: Closing the Series
• 2025-12-16 AI Gifts for 2026: Part 2
• 2025-12-11 AI Gifts for 2026
• 2025-10-21 AI The Hard Way
• 2025-10-14 Two Clocks
• 2025-07-07 The Telescope Problem
• 2025-06-16 Prompt Reengineering
• 2025-05-28 Think Different
• 2025-04-29 The New Builder Revolution (Won't Be Televised)
• 2025-03-10 Revert to Type: The Unexpected Rise of Text-First Interfaces
• 2025-03-04 Reclaim The Silo
• 2025-02-24 The Trust Deadlock
• 2025-02-17 The ROI Trap
• 2025-02-11 Agent Provocateur
• 2025-01-29 Abundance Is the Catalyst
• 2025-01-23 The Aperture of Utility
• 2025-01-03 Thought Leadership
• 2024-09-26 The Thinking Press
• 2024-07-30 Curvonomics (and the rise of AGI)
• 2024-06-26 Carpe Exponentia
• 2024-06-12 Models, Rock, Paper, Scissors
• 2024-05-21 This Newsletter is Counterintuitive