Alex Golbin
Forty-eight hours after the Arizona collapse, Aaron walks into a hostile boardroom that wants closure more than nuance and gives him one meeting to explain a multibillion-dollar failure. Directors press for a clean verdict: was Bull-in-China Shop AI an unlucky outlier, or the first sign that something deeper is breaking across their portfolio? Aaron refuses a single villain. Instead, he unveils the Digital Watershed—a strategic map of how their once-isolated AI tools have become tightly coupled, cross-sector dependencies. He offers early case studies and hard questions rather than easy answers, leaving the room unsettled. The chapter never declares the disaster a one-off or proof of inevitable collapse; it leaves the board and the reader sitting with the uncomfortable sense that they no longer know which it is.