Before Human Judgment
I see much of the AI conversation coming to the same realization: human judgment matters more than ever. I think that’s right. But judgment isn’t where the...
Nothing Between You and Seeing
At the beginning of this year, I felt it was time to stop explaining my images and start living them. How do you do that? I wasn’t sure. What I came to see...
See What Is
View full screen in a Lightbox. What we see is not what is. We see a slice, not the field, and mistake it for the whole. I had a birthday last week. At my...
There is no road up.
This past week, Christopher Nolan released a film with the same name as our monthly Odyssey session. I didn’t plan it that way, but I’ve been listening to...
How I Learned to See My Blind Spots
Earlier today I published a post on LinkedIn that said AI scales our blind spots. Here's how I first learned to see mine. Back in 2010, I ran my first...
How Two Likes Led Me to a Dead End
They don't get it. Only two people responded to the image I shared yesterday on LinkedIn. It was disappointing, because I felt it might be one of the most...
The lens comes first.
View full screen. Society is optimizing the wrong thing. For decades we've been taught to improve performance, productivity, communication, leadership,...
The Gap
Something happened. Then the mind added something. It happens so fast and automatically, we never notice the difference. I built Notice to experience that...
Fewer People, Seen More Clearly
For many years and like many others, my approach has been to make things and publish them — articles, interviews, images, a newsletter every week. That made...
The Thread Running Through It All
SEE DIFFERENT - A realization sixteen years in the making. In 2010 I sat down with an expert in process improvement. We met to talk about capability models,...
We think we're seeing reality...
Most people think they're seeing reality. But that's where the trouble begins. Before we react, decide, communicate, lead, or use AI, the mind has already...
AI Scales What You Bring to It
For the past year I’ve been noticing something I can’t unsee. AI doesn’t just generate content. It reflects something back about the person using it. I find...
The Decision Before the Reaction
Reactions begin before we realize we are reacting. Before you opened this email, an interpretation was already forming. Before you read AI's reply, you'd...
The Perception Miracle
Humanity has spent centuries trying to change the world externally while remaining largely unaware of the perceptual lens through which the world is being...
The Problem that Isn't There
Imagine you wake up one morning, and there is nothing to fix. It's not because everything is perfect, but because nothing is being labeled as a problem. In...
See the unseen first.
“Today's ethic? See the unseen.” That was the comment from John Bell on my recent post. John wrote a book called Do Less Better. Before that, he was CEO of...
Fifty-four Minutes
On April 6, four astronauts watched the moon eclipse the sun. For fifty-four minutes, the moon was between them and the sun. On Earth, totality lasts a few...
AI Didn’t Change the Game. It Exposed It.
AI doesn’t show us reality as it is. It shows us reality as we see it—at scale. That changes what matters. For decades, we’ve focused on improving what comes...
There Is No Chaos
We’re not struggling with chaos. We’re reacting to judgments we mistake for reality, and no amount of better leadership or AI can fix a problem that begins...
The Sublime Power of Synchronicity
View the image full screen. Over a period of 13 years, I published six articles in the Cutter journals. One focused on Agile and CMMI. Another on digital...