I've spent 32 years in the technical weeds of enterprise IT and knowledge work, with 6 books, 2,000+ articles, and 1,000+ talks globally. Now as a futurist at Citrix, I bridge between what AI can do and how work actually gets done inside enterprises. More about me.
I publish my intellectual work as a structured knowledge repo at brianmadden.ai, queryable by any AI via MCP. It's not a blog, but a subscribable brain. Everyone should do this!
Citrix AI Hotsheet, Episode 3. Brian and Dave reframe the 7-stage roadmap: it's not a ladder, it's a palace, with the second brain as the permanent foundation. Brian argues that the dominant 'audit your tasks and build automations' narrative is RPA thinking applied to the wrong problem — the real move is connecting the second brain into all the apps and data sources humans already use. Dave tells the glass-ceiling story: what changed when he moved his second brain from a personal laptop into a sanctioned Citrix VDI.
Citrix AI Hotsheet, Episode 2 (special solo edition). Brian Madden shares his EUCTech keynote, 'The Last Chapter of EUC': where end-user computing stands in 2026 (capabilities vs. diffusion), the invisible 80% of knowledge work, the updated seven-step roadmap for how AI enters work, an audit of every EUC primitive translated into its AI-era successor, and why this is the last chapter of book one, not the end of the story.
Citrix AI Hotsheet, Episode 1. Brian Madden and Dave Brear launch the show: how AI is actually entering the enterprise, why computer-using agents are coming for the same desktops human workers already use, and why so many knowledge workers are quietly building second brains their employers can't see.