About this Presentation
Wolf McNally has spent four decades turning audacious ideas into software that reshapes how people think. As the creator of Flying Logic, he made the visual language of the Theory of Constraints accessible to strategists from Fortune 500 firms to solo consultants. He also leads research at Blockchain Commons, developing open-source protocols for digital autonomy.
In this session Wolf traces Flying Logic’s evolution as a decision accelerator, then confronts the elephant on every strategic planner’s whiteboard: artificial intelligence. He compares the way large models reason with the way humans think, exposes the cognitive terrain AI cannot cross, and shows how TOC practitioners can ride the wave instead of becoming the constraint. He closes with a glimpse into his research for next-generation AI-integrated TOC tools.
What Will You Learn
To help you get the most value from this session, we’ve highlighted a few key points. These takeaways capture the main ideas and practical insights from the presentation, making it easier for you to review, reflect, and apply what you’ve learned.
This session argues that the biggest AI skill is not prompt cleverness, but learning how to ask the right questions and provide enough context for useful answers. It treats AI as a qualitative tool that rewards better framing more than brute precision.
A key insight is that AI feels human enough to tempt overtrust, yet remains fundamentally alien in how it “thinks.” That tension matters, because people naturally anthropomorphize systems that can sound insightful, supportive, or emotionally engaged.
The presentation positions today’s AI moment in a longer arc, from early AI dreams and winters to the modern resurgence driven by algorithms, big data, hardware acceleration, and the transformer breakthrough.
Rather than offering hype alone, the session emphasizes discernment: beware sycophancy, recognize the jagged frontier, and understand that even wrong answers can still be useful when they move thinking in the right direction
Instructor(s)
Wolf McNally
Wolf McNally
Wolf is the CEO of Arciem LLC, the company that publishes Flying Logic. He conceptualized, designed and created Flying Logic in 2007, and remains the chief visionary and architect for future versions of the software. He started computer programming on an Apple II computer at the age of 12, got his first paid gig at 14, and became Sega Games' youngest employee at the age of 17. Wolf has not stopped coding since then.. For fun, Wolf likes to...code (not kidding). When he can be pried away from his keyboard, he enjoys bodybuilding, traveling with his wife Luna, and riding his motorcycle around the Las Vegas valley with friends.