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Content Trust, Ten Years Later
In 2016 I asked whether search would need a content-trust score, because links and shares could not tell a hoax from a satire. The score never arrived. Retrieval at the claim level did. That is not the same as knowing whether the claim is true.
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Paying for the Same Work Twice
A shared drive can hold an accepted briefing long after the person who reviewed it has been forgotten. The record worth keeping names the owner, the question it answered, who may use it, and what change would make it obsolete. A new chat does not write that down. The team that needs the briefing again should pay for the lookup.
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The Paper Trail of an Idea
Brinker predicts that 2027 will be the year of coherence. A public chain already connects context, absorption, metabolism, and the debts that speed creates. This essay dates that chain, including two sequences memory gets wrong: which August essay came first, and which July essay followed.
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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.