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Knowledge Priming: The Attention Budget
You can give an agent every file you own and still watch it ship internet-average prose. Knowledge priming is the attention budget that decides what loads first: a lean, OKF-shaped onboarding packet that overrides training-data defaults before the first prompt.
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Coordination Debt
AI makes plans look ready before anyone decides what the work is for. That gap fills calendars with handoffs nobody owns. Score your Coordination Debt with five yes/no questions, then name who commits before you empower more people or ship another tool.
Negative Knowledge
Deletion without annotation is the actual failure. Most knowledge systems treat retirement as cleanup. The audit trail of how conclusions changed is qualification infrastructure: for downstream teams correcting derivatives, and for agents that must not repeat the searches you already rejected.
The Framework
Madam I’m Adam is built around a connected set of concepts for thinking about AI and organizational learning. Here are a few worth knowing.
| Organizational Metabolism | The rhythm at which an institution can absorb external change and integrate it into lasting behavior. |
| Cognitive Debt | The liability that accumulates when teams adopt new tools and workflows faster than they can actually master them. |
| Speed Inflation | What happens when AI compresses work to machine tempo while organizational hierarchies remain at human tempo — decisions happen before understanding does. |
About Adam
I’m a digital strategy executive and the writer behind Madam I’m Adam. As Director of Thought Leadership and Strategic Insights at Maximus, I translate complex AI and technology capabilities into clear positioning for federal clients, executive stakeholders, and lawmakers. Before Maximus: Director of Product Marketing at Fluence Energy, VP roles at ADEC Innovations and ICF International, and a decade at ThoughtWorks scaling a global consultancy from 800 to 3,500 people.