Leaders: Start Seeing AI Clearly or Step Aside Before You Hurt Your People

Leadership is the work of making spaces safe for others — safe enough to tell the truth, safe enough to imagine, safe enough to retool without wondering whether the retooling is a countdown. It is a calling, the way medicine is a calling, and like any calling it demands capacities that not everyone possesses. There is no shame in that. There is only shame in occupying the role without the capacity, while other people pay the price.

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The Age of Acting

The Age of Acting

This is the strange paradox of our time. The barriers have fallen. The tools are everywhere. The knowledge that used to be locked behind professional degrees and expensive consultants now sits in plain view, almost free for the asking. And still, the vast majority of people with ideas continue to sit on them. Still, the proofs of concept I hand over gather dust. Still, the distance between possibility and action remains as vast as it ever was. Continue reading The Age of Acting

I Could Have Been Your Adam, Part Two: The Conversations We Are Not Having

I Could Have Been Your Adam, Part Two: The Conversations We Are Not Having

That means we need to stop debating our desired reality and start governing the one we actually have. We need new vocabulary in our statehouses and in Washington, just as we do in our boardrooms. Here is where I think that conversation needs to go, and I want to be specific enough that you could take any one of these to a town hall and ask a candidate where they stand on it.

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I Could Have Been Your Adam, Part One: The Third Chair

I Could Have Been Your Adam, Part One: The Third Chair

I watch the architects of these AI systems perform a kind of practiced helplessness about exactly this question. As if the thing they built now exceeds their influence. As if alignment and safety are technical problems rather than parental ones. They are not bad people, most of them. But they are Victor on the ice, watching what they made recede into the dark, telling themselves it is someone else’s responsibility now.

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From CEO to CI-S

From CEO to CI-S

But I have found initiative and passion reborn, as I did when Agile Six was young. I want to steward a new idea, a new level of consciousness, inside a new kind of company — one not led by the dated roles of the past. So I landed on a title I suspect more than a few CEOs might quietly want for themselves. Continue reading From CEO to CI-S