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Trailing
February 23, 2026
"Breaking new ground in AI, ignoring prerequisites, and forging our own path."
The Understanding Trap
February 16, 2026
"Embracing 'Fire, Aim, Ready' with AI, tackling workplace annoyances, and letting go of perfect understanding."
Choose Your Chair Wisely
February 9, 2026
Surviving AI's job disruption through strategic signals, subtractions, leadership and ownership.
The Weight of Avoidance
February 2, 2026
"Exploring the gap in measuring AI's effectiveness and advocating for honest benchmarks in AI capability."
The Handoff Gap
January 26, 2026
Ownership at AI Scales and Speeds
Rightness at Resolution
January 19, 2026
This edition stresses the crucial role of resolution in AI output validation for successful implementation.
The Copilot Problem
January 12, 2026
An ancient failure mode AI is exposing everywhere
The One-Hour Year
January 5, 2026
When individuals outrun institutions, the ground shifts for everyone
The Only Skill That Matters
December 29, 2025
AI Didn’t Replace Our Skills. It Collapsed Them.
What Survived 2025
December 22, 2025
Top 10 most relevant patterns from this year's issues. Steal them for 2026.
AI as Default Path
December 15, 2025
Real AI adoption happens when it's integrated into a workflow, not just shoehorned in as a 'special' event.
Workshops & Walkways
December 8, 2025
Why L&D makes a better AI onramp than hype department
Managers over AI Models
December 1, 2025
Why your AI strategy lives (or dies) in 1:1s
Thank You, Friction
November 24, 2025
Why I’m Grateful for Those on the Bulge & Back End of the Adoption Curve
Synthetic Trust
November 17, 2025
Unmasking Synthetic Trust: be wary of AI's confident tone and demand proof of reasoning
Human Interface Fatigue
November 10, 2025
The more “human-friendly” our tools become, the more mental overhead they create
Confidence & Calibration
November 3, 2025
Unpacking confidence saturation in AI, separating smarts from sound, and rewiring rewards.
Immature AI Maturity
October 27, 2025
Exploring the hurdles of measuring AI maturity and the pitfalls of misguided metrics.
Success at the PAICE of Work
October 20, 2025
Unveiling PAICE, a free tool to measure People+AI Collaboration Effectiveness
Turbulent Measures
October 13, 2025
Exploring AI's latest signals, effective dashboard creation, and the importance of valuable metrics.
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