The blog.
Where I write about the gaps I see, the method I use and the direction technology should take.
What Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund Teaches Australia About Resource Wealth
Norway turned finite oil income into a public fund worth more than 21 trillion kroner. The lesson for Australia is not the fund itself. It is the institutional discipline that made it possible.
Australia Already Has a Sovereign Wealth Fund. It Needs a Clearer Job
The Future Fund was built to meet public sector pension liabilities and now manages more than $250 billion. Before Australia debates a new sovereign wealth fund, it needs a national investment architecture.
Turning Australia's Mineral Wealth Into National Wealth
Australia's resource boom delivered record royalties and company tax, yet little was saved. A practical assessment of how a national fund could be financed, what each option costs, and the windfall rule Australia should adopt.
Preparing Australians for the AI Transition: What a National Fund Can and Cannot Do
Artificial intelligence will change Australian work faster than most institutions can adapt. A scenario-based assessment of what a national fund can realistically contribute, and why it must be built before the disruption arrives.
Governance Is What Makes a Sovereign Wealth Fund Last
Public funds rarely fail because of poor investment returns. They fail because of weak mandates, political withdrawals and reporting no citizen can read. The governance standard an Australian national fund must meet.
The AI Era Is Here. Australia Needs a Path to Shared Prosperity
Dainu Devis explores how Australian businesses can turn artificial intelligence into practical capability, help workers navigate change and create prosperity that reaches more people.
How I Build Technology Businesses for Scale
Dainu Devis explains concurrent product and process design: developing the product, the operating model and the route to market together, and why that discipline decides whether an Australian technology business can scale.
Leading AI Adoption with Clear Accountability
Dainu Devis on why intelligent agents need defined jobs, limited permissions, tested failure paths and human oversight before they take on more responsibility, and what that means for any CEO introducing artificial intelligence.
Australia’s AI Future Must Be Worth Building
Dainu Devis explores how responsible AI, sovereign capability and meaningful work can strengthen Australia’s economy and rebuild confidence in its future.
The kind of strategist public leaders need now
Why Dainu Devis's experience in economic strategy, technology and delivery is relevant to leaders facing global change.
Technology should give ordinary people more power to act
Dainu Devis's vision for technology that strengthens workers, small businesses and communities in the age of AI.
Trust is earned through delivery
Why Dainu Devis believes credible leadership starts with listening and follows through with measurable results.
Why complex problems need a whole-system strategy
How Dainu Devis connects people, policy, economics and delivery when a problem has no simple answer.
AI, jobs and the value of human work
Dainu Devis on why the response to AI must strengthen people's ability to work, build and contribute.
Building AI Businesses Around Customer Value
Dainu Devis, Chief Executive Officer of Sharktech Global, on why the opportunity in applied artificial intelligence sits in the everyday work businesses still struggle to do, and why launching a product is not the same as building demand.
Australia's AI Future: Most Jobs Will Change. The Question Is Whether We Change With Them
Artificial intelligence will not simply remove Australian jobs. It will redesign the tasks inside almost every role by 2030. An evidence-based assessment of what is changing, who is exposed, and what workers, businesses and government should do now.
From Feasibility to Investment-Ready: How Safety Intelligence De-Risks Major Projects in the NT and WA
The gap that stalls northern projects is not the resource. It is the risk. How safety intelligence de-risks major projects in the Northern Territory and Western Australia and moves them from feasibility to investment-ready.
Industrial Safety Intelligence: The Missing Layer in the Northern Territory Resources Boom
Why industrial safety intelligence is the trust layer that turns a Northern Territory and Western Australia resources boom into a lasting, investment-ready economy.
A Skilled Safety Workforce for the North: Technology as a Force Multiplier
The real effect of industrial intelligence on safety jobs in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. It does not replace people. It multiplies them. And it keeps the value of the boom in the north.
Sovereign Safety Capability: Building Industrial Resilience From Northern Australia
We guard sovereign minerals and sovereign compute. We should also guard the intelligence that watches our most strategic sites. Built in the north, owned at home.
Western Australia Does Not Need More Safety Paperwork. It Needs a Safety Operating System
Western Australia runs the engine room of Australian mining, yet many sites still manage safety with a clipboard. Why a live safety operating system protects production, reputation and the state's position.
Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Explained
Design for manufacture and assembly means designing the product and the process that delivers it together. What that changes, and what it costs upfront.
The Make or Buy Decision Manufacturing Gets Late
The make or buy decision manufacturing teams face is usually made by default, after specification freeze. The four inputs that should settle it first.
Wang Chuanfu taught me that the whole chain is the advantage
On orphanhood and engineering conviction, why owning what you build is not a cost burden but a moat, how an orphan from rural China became the man who surpassed Tesla, and what that means for building Sharktech on our own terms.
Sridhar Vembu taught me that the loudest room is almost never the right room
On building without permission, owning the signal that matters, why technology must transform lives before it earns its valuation, and the man from rural Tamil Nadu who proved that independence is not a constraint. It is the strategy.
The biggest risk you will ever take is the one where you decide to do absolutely nothing
On inaction, the hidden cost of staying still, and six lessons from Ben Carson that changed how I think about every decision worth making.
The last shift is not a metaphor. It is happening right now
On the 85 million displaced jobs nobody is talking about plainly, the three-year window that will define a generation, and why the people losing their roles are not the problem. We are.
The accountant working until 9pm is not a productivity problem. It is a technology problem
Australian accounting practices are running some of the most complex compliance workflows in the world on tools that were never designed for the job. The cost is not just revenue. It is people's time, their health, and the professional life they trained years to build.
The Answer to Australia's Energy Crisis Is Not Where You Think
On 6 April 2026, India quietly achieved something most nations have been debating for decades. Three weeks later, Australia approved $51.9 billion in data centre projects that will demand power we have not yet figured out how to deliver. These two stories are the same story.
Mark Zuckerberg showed me that failure does not wait for permission. Not even at a trillion dollars
On building one of the most consequential platforms in human history, losing the original question, what a Guruji in the Himalayas told me about a connection I did not expect, and why Motivo360 exists.
Why the Northern Territory Should Become Australia's Semiconductor Materials Hub
Twenty-one confirmed critical minerals. Unlimited solar power. A subsea cable to Singapore. A$25 billion of incoming Microsoft AI infrastructure capital. And 1.35 million square kilometres of land waiting for the design that turns scattered assets into a single, sovereign, investable proposition. The NT is not a problem. It is a canvas.
Jordan Peterson asked me the one question I had been avoiding for years
On owning the decision rather than the circumstance, why the title you hold is not who you are, and the difference between a life that is comfortable and one that is worth something.
Sheikh Mohammed taught me that the largest ambitions demand the deepest discipline
On vision that becomes visible, power that stays close to people, grief that deepens duty, and the strategic logic of building from what is most naturally yours.
Ajay Banga showed me that starting over is not a setback. It is the strategy
On listening before you lead, defining your competition correctly, and why managing critical network infrastructure gave me an edge I did not recognise until I walked away from it.
Naval Ravikant gave me the daring to start again
On running out of ammunition inside a successful career, writing a resignation letter kept in my drafts, and the moment fortune rewarded a prepared mind.