AI & Emerging Technology
The AI Could Keep Fixing Things. We Had to Decide When to Stop.
A PDF investigation shows how sensible suggestions from an AI agent can add up to unplanned work—and why deciding what is enough takes human attention.
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Trust, Risk & Governance
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The Context Between the Clicks
AI agents use interfaces designed for people who bring context and learn through experience. What happens when they arrive without either?
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What If We Can't Keep Up?
Chicago's Deep Tunnel offers lessons for investing in AI defense, finding bottlenecks, and adjusting when future demands exceed our plans.
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What Kind of Fires Does AI Start?
Alex Cannella applies familiar problem-solving methods to active AI incidents, smoldering problems, and conditions that could fuel future failures.
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Can an AI Stop Before It Guesses—and Keep Working?
A retrospective lab notebook tracing experiments, measurement mistakes, and imperfect results when an AI must pause an unsupported action while continuing useful research.
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Digital Pair Therapy
Use disagreement with a coding agent to uncover missing context, preserve decisions, and improve how you work together.
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Feelings, Evidence and Constraints in AI Collaboration
Separate feelings, evidence, constraints, and assumptions when working with AI, while keeping research findings and practical hypotheses distinct.
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Integrating GenAI Into User Workflow
Navigating the hype while meeting the future head on.
Leadership & Organizations
Learning to Lead While the Rules Are Changing
A military leadership experiment offers a way to think about uncertainty, information provenance, and learning to lead systems that contain AI.
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Kirk, Raccoons, and the Trouble With Rules
Kirk, raccoons, and AI agents offer a humorous look at how persistent learners discover gaps between intended rules and the possibilities a system actually permits.
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“The AI Did It” Is Not an Excuse
AI can move the work, but people and organizations remain accountable for the choices, safeguards, and outcomes of its use.
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Before the Fire: How We Learn to Use AI Safely
Responsible AI use is a learning loop: anticipate what could go wrong, observe what happens, and use what you learn to improve the next decision.
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Can You Recover Your AI Work?
Backup copies are a starting point. Recovering AI work also means restoring the conversations, instructions, connections, and context that make a project usable.
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No, Chatbots Will Not Be Controlling Air Travel
Distinguish AI traffic-planning support from chatbot control, and ask how aviation recommendations are checked and which decisions stay human.
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Why Aren’t Skills Namespaced?
Understand how flat skill names create ambiguity, and reduce friction and risk through source tracking, reviewed revisions, and deliberate updates.
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How Far Should an AI Claim Be Allowed to Travel?
Identify the last responsible gate where an unverified AI claim must be checked before action becomes hard to reverse.
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Can I Trust an LLM With Business Math?
How to trust AI-assisted business analytics by defining the metric, inspecting the calculation, and following the number back to its source.
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Human-Shaped, Not Human
Human-shaped model behavior raises choices about usefulness, safety, and the friction people face when those patterns are suppressed.
Trust, Risk & Governance
The Backup Illusion: Are We Actually Recoverable?
How independent recovery paths, retention, and tested restores help a business recover from mistakes, outages, and data loss.
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When Building Gets Faster Than Learning
Faster implementation changes when we can validate a system against the business it serves, and how we should plan to stay involved.
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When the Monitoring Window Gets Smaller
What weaker monitoring of visible reasoning means for AI oversight, trust, and the checks people choose.
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AI Is Only Magic When We Close Our Eyes
When AI systems behave in unexpected ways, senior leaders need to examine the objectives, tools, permissions, monitoring, and organizational capacity surrounding the model.
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The Race Condition with Reality
A systems-thinking article explaining why AI adoption feels chaotic when capability, understanding, governance, resilience, human adaptation, and scale all move at different speeds.
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Second Brains, Post Offices, and the Problem of Finding Things
A plain-language explanation of why AI-powered second brains depend on maps, indexes, and human validation to find the right information.
Systems Thinking
Resilience Debt
A reflection on how convenience, efficiency, and automation can quietly remove the alternate paths an organization needs during disruption.
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Where Second Brains Break
A practical article on stress-testing AI-powered second brains for retrieval, source authority, calibration, and safe operating boundaries.
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How to Measure Collaboration Friction in AI-Assisted Work
A practical how-to article on using transcript-based collaboration friction as one measurement tool for improving agentic work environments.
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Shared Principles for Human and AI Collaborators
A field note on using shared operating principles to make human-AI collaboration more trustworthy.
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Where Is the Panic Button?
A practical reflection on why every GenAI user should know how to stop an agent before handing it work.
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The Coverage We Forgot
AI-accelerated delivery needs a broader definition of coverage before teams can release with confidence.
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The System Found the Word…
How Semantic Debt Compounds at Machine Speed
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Reagan Was Right - Trust, But Verify
A lesson from an AI agent that did not actually turn off.
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AI Reaches Far Beyond Its Users
Like many technologies before it, AI is spreading into more and more of the systems that shape modern life. History reminds us that technologies often become deeply embedded in society long before we fully understand their long-term consequences.
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Learning From the Illusion of Knowing
A convincing response can still be a useful object of investigation.