https://bil.arikan.ca/tags/innovation/Recent content in Innovation on Bil ArikanHugoen-USSun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bil.arikan.ca/posts/they-called-it-a-bedroom-project/Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://bil.arikan.ca/posts/they-called-it-a-bedroom-project/The first time an AI prototype I built got dismissed as a ‘bedroom project’, it felt personal. By the third time, I started to see a system. In this post I name the patterns AI builders hit inside large enterprises — provenance attacks, role-legitimacy challenges, capture mechanisms, balkanised AI efforts, and the shape-shifter’s double bind — show that each one is documented in organisational research, and lay out the tactics I have tested for getting past the dismissal hump.