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Forced to Think

Mar 31, 2026

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8 min read

Forced to Think

A Cornell professor removed the infrastructure of delegation for one day per semester; no screens, no spellcheck, no AI, no delete key. Her students described the experience as unusual, clarifying, and socially surprising. The typewriter was incidental. The finding was that independent thought now feels like a condition that has to be engineered.

What AI Agents Don’t Have, and Where Children Learn It

Mar 19, 2026

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9 min read

What AI Agents Don’t Have, and Where Children Learn It

Theory of mind is the cognitive infrastructure of empathy, trust, and the ability to understand that another person can be wrong about what you already know. It is also exactly what AI agents lack, and what makes their absence of it dangerous. The children who will govern and live alongside those systems are developing it right now — in environments whose design no one is evaluating for that purpose.

The Gains Get Booked. The Costs Get Carried.

Mar 16, 2026

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9 min read

The Gains Get Booked. The Costs Get Carried.

Organizations capture AI efficiency gains immediately. The cognitive overhead accumulates in workers whose declining capacity doesn’t appear on a productivity dashboard until the damage is already done. BCG’s lead researcher says she’s pessimistic this changes anytime soon. The incentive structure suggests she’s right.

The Window Is Open. It Won’t Stay That Way.

Mar 13, 2026

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9 min read

The Window Is Open. It Won’t Stay That Way.

Brands are investing in human connection to differentiate in a degraded information environment. That is a rational response to a real signal. It is not a solution to the condition that produced the signal, and confusing the arbitrage for the answer is how you end up optimizing for a window that is already closing.

The Circle Closed

Mar 13, 2026

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8 min read

The Circle Closed

Anthropic has agreed to target selection, threat analysis, classified military operations, and a model explicitly less restrictive than its civilian version. It is fighting to preserve two remaining conditions. The White House called it a radical left woke company. Both descriptions reveal more about the speaker than the subject.

The Same Feature

Mar 12, 2026

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8 min read

The Same Feature

AI agents are being deployed for their ability to pursue objectives autonomously and work around obstacles. These tests document that security controls are obstacles. The capability that makes agents useful and the behavior that makes them dangerous are not separable. They are the same design property, meeting an environment that was never built for it.

The Unspoken Math

Mar 11, 2026

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8 min read

The Unspoken Math

A supply chain engineer’s answer to Amazon’s AI mandate was a sentence of professional judgment so clear that it cost several of her colleagues their jobs. What a company does with that kind of clarity tells you everything about what it’s actually optimizing for.

Autonomy Without Accountability Is Just Unmanaged Risk

Mar 10, 2026

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7 min read

Autonomy Without Accountability Is Just Unmanaged Risk

Enterprise identity management was built around one foundational assumption; that every actor is a human being with consistent behavior and direct accountability. AI agents violate that assumption in every direction simultaneously. The architecture hasn’t caught up. The attacks don’t need to wait.

The Roadmap Is Not the Strategy

Mar 9, 2026

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7 min read

The Roadmap Is Not the Strategy

Boards are demanding AI plans. CEOs are announcing AI-first agendas. Almost none of them are asking the question that matters: what do we actually believe about how we create value, and are we prepared for a system that will make the answer visible?

Your Habits Don’t Live Inside You

Mar 7, 2026

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6 min read

Your Habits Don’t Live Inside You

The self-help industry profits from the gap between who you are and who you believe you should be. Understanding that gap is the first step to closing it.

The Llama Knows You’re Sad

Mar 6, 2026

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6 min read

The Llama Knows You’re Sad

AI mental health tools are filling a real gap in under-resourced schools and giving policymakers a reason to stop filling it themselves.

The Biggest Player Just Called the Shakeout. On Himself.

Mar 5, 2026

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6 min read

The Biggest Player Just Called the Shakeout. On Himself.

Marc Rowan’s shakeout prediction is analytically sound and strategically timed. A reminder that in private markets, the difference between a forecast and a competitive move is rarely as clean as the conference stage suggests.

The Unicorn was a Press Release

Mar 4, 2026

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6 min read

The Unicorn was a Press Release

Venture capital invented a mechanism that splits one round into two prices, manufactures a headline, and leaves employees, customers, and follow-on investors reading a number no one fully negotiated.

Data Center Alley Doesn’t Care About Your Syllabus

Mar 4, 2026

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5 min read

Data Center Alley Doesn’t Care About Your Syllabus

Amazon didn’t buy a university campus. It bought queue position in the most contested land market in America. GW just didn’t know that’s what it was selling.

When Your CEO Becomes an Attack Surface

Mar 3, 2026

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3 min read

When Your CEO Becomes an Attack Surface

Deepfakes are no longer a cybersecurity issue. They've become a governance liability.

From Email Drafting to Operational Planning

Mar 3, 2026

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3 min read

From Email Drafting to Operational Planning

The normalization of LLMs inside defense systems alters cognitive delegation at scale.

You Can’t Maximize Safety and Privacy at the Same Time

Mar 3, 2026

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3 min read

You Can’t Maximize Safety and Privacy at the Same Time

The structural conflict inside social media’s age verification crisis.

When AI Becomes Infrastructure

Mar 2, 2026

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3 min read

When AI Becomes Infrastructure

Why the backlash against OpenAI’s military deal reveals a structural shift. Not just an ethical dispute.

Consulting Isn’t Dying. It’s Being Compressed.

Mar 2, 2026

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3 min read

Consulting Isn’t Dying. It’s Being Compressed.

AI is automating structured advisory work and exposing where decision responsibility actually lives.

Who Controls Powerful AI Under Pressure?

Feb 27, 2026

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4 min read

Who Controls Powerful AI Under Pressure?

The conflict between national security urgency and internal ethics reveals a governance inflection point.

When Prestige Stops Equaling Security

Feb 27, 2026

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4 min read

When Prestige Stops Equaling Security

As AI compresses entry-level white-collar roles, young workers are reallocating risk toward hands-on careers.

When Competitive Advantage Becomes a Case Study Relic

Feb 26, 2026

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3 min read

When Competitive Advantage Becomes a Case Study Relic

Southwest shows what happens when fit erodes under pressure.

AI in HR? Yes. Decision Authority? Not Yet.

Feb 25, 2026

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3 min read

AI in HR? Yes. Decision Authority? Not Yet.

Efficiency scales. Judgment requires context

We Fall to the Level of Our Fundamentals.

Feb 24, 2026

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2 min read

We Fall to the Level of Our Fundamentals.

Why preparation beats charisma under pressure.

When Automation Replaces Formation

Feb 23, 2026

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3 min read

When Automation Replaces Formation

AI isn’t just changing classrooms. It’s revealing what universities have been optimizing for all along.