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Intention > Automation

We are living in the age of automation, artificial intelligence, and a whole lot of unquestioned assumptions. And one of the biggest assumptions is that automation is always desirable.If something…

Since When Is Artificial Good

Exploring why human judgment remains indispensable in an age of AI. Real ingredients are good. Artificial ingredients are bad. Except when it comes to intelligence. We recoil at synthetic flavors,…

Losing the IT Productivity Battle

Information technology is not really about productivity anymore, it is really about self perpetuation and expansion. It is not about users and customers anymore, if it truly ever was. Sure,…

Naturally Reductive

There are so many ways to be reductive. Reduction is so seductive. It is easy. But rarely does anything work quite that way. There are more factors and interactions at…

Framing

Framing is the ultimate skill and it happens all the time.  Things get framed for us and we also frame things on our own. There is so much information to…