For over two decades, I've wandered the sacred temples of corporate innovation, the keynote stages, the boardrooms scented with freshly printed KPIs, the consulting bunkers where buzzwords go to breed, and I've come to a blasphemous realization:

Most of it is bullshit.

Not the kind that smells. The kind that's powerfully scented with synergy. The kind sold in $15,000 strategy decks. The kind that claps for itself after every "Design Thinking" workshop that solves absolutely nothing.

I've seen it all, from the illusion of "transformation" at Microsoft to the innovation theater at Volvo Cars where I served as In-house Futurologist (yes, that's a real job title). At Edgecom, I led development when "mobile-first" was still something people said with a straight face. As Chief Knowledge Officer at Cellcom, I was responsible for building the thing behind the thing.

And now? Now I help people stop lying to themselves, but with charm.

I've done this work across finance, energy, mobility, and life sciences, with organizations large enough to know better and brave enough to try anyway. Mastercard, Financial Times, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Siemens, Volkswagen, Telefónica, T-Mobile, Fujifilm, Henkel, BCG, McKinsey, the World Bank, IFC, E.ON, Teradata, Polpharma Biologics, the governments of Kazakhstan and Moscow city. Some hired me twice. I choose to believe that's a compliment.

I've sat in rooms where someone says "leverage our core competencies" and means it. Where "blockchain integration" is the answer before anyone has asked the question. Where "disruption" is whispered like a prayer by people who have never actually broken anything. I've watched companies spend fortunes duct-taping apps onto broken processes and calling it transformation. I've seen digital strategies that were, on closer inspection, a UI reskin on a system that never worked, wearing a press release like a suit.

Every strategy that ever actually changed something fit on a napkin. Not a whitepaper, not a quarterly deck, not a 47-point innovation framework with animated slide transitions. Just a napkin. If you need 200 slides to explain your plan, you don't have one.

Forget the kombucha bars and beanbag sanctuaries where creativity goes to nap. Give me a whiteboard, a dangerous question, and someone brave enough to say, this doesn't work, how do we fix it? That's where the real innovation starts. And it usually ends with less process, not more.

When you want to understand how I think, start here.

The Intellectual Rage.
A Historical Chronicle of the Corporate Dark Ages →

Someone had to document what happened while McKinsey tried to reinvent the coffee cup using blockchain. A forensic autopsy of two decades of expensive nonsense, written with the kind of affection you feel for a car crash you personally survived.

Echoes in the Code
The Prometheus Problem →

The future was arriving faster than most companies could schedule a meeting about it. This is what happens when you ignore the fire long enough that it starts scheduling meetings of its own.

Acceleration
Navigating the Frontier of Everything →

If you believe the next ten years will resemble the last ten, this will only disturb you. It was written for the ones who can already feel the ground moving, and refuse to pretend otherwise. We are not living through an era of change. We are living through a change of era. The old maps are gone. The wave is already here.

The Archive of Shadows
Stories from the edges of history →

History doesn't disappear. It gets filed incorrectly. Across centuries and continents, these stories follow the ones who refused to be erased, a clerk writing forbidden names into a hidden book, ghosts navigating data and memory. The pen name is D.B. Solomon. The obsession with what gets forgotten is entirely mine.

If you're tired of paying consultants to tell you what your interns already know,

if you're done innovating for slide decks and want to build something that actually matters,

if you're ready to hear what everyone else is too polite, or too billable, to say,

Beep me. beep@aricdromi.com

Because the future isn't in your innovation funnel or your brand manifesto. It's in the next hard conversation you're willing to have, with your team, your customers, and yourself.

And I'm happy to help you start it.