The first honest AI governance move isn't regulating models. It's an institution admitting it can't yet measure what it's absorbing. Adoption announcements are easy. Absorption meters are rare. …
Essays on AI Strategy, Leadership & Organizational Change
The problem is not information overload. It is absorption failure. Every essay here starts from that premise: that how an organization integrates change matters more than which tools it adopts or how fast it moves.
Madam I’m Adam is a weekly newsletter and essay series on AI strategy, organizational knowledge, and human leadership in the age of intelligent systems. The frameworks here are for people who want to understand what is actually changing — and why the human layer remains the one that determines the outcome.
If you lead people, strategy, or technology in a world being rewired by AI, you are in the right place.
The Builder Journey
Designing loops and skills is how you stop re-explaining intent every session and start compounding it. In Knowledge as Code, I argued for the file: institutional memory that survives a tool …
Reliable AI Begins Before the Model
The most reliable AI systems are not built on better prompts alone; they are built on knowledge that has been structured, bounded, tested, traced, and made accountable to human …
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Knowledge Priming: The Attention Budget
Knowledge as code fails in production when the files exist but the agent still ships the average of the internet. In Knowledge as Code, I argued for the file: institutional memory that …
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Coordination Debt
Organizations accrue coordination debt when AI tools multiply handoffs faster than anyone redesigns who decides what happens next. The familiar complaint sounds like a pace problem. Everyone feels …
Negative Knowledge
Deletion without annotation is the actual failure. Most knowledge systems treat retirement as cleanup; the audit trail of how conclusions changed is a qualification, not clutter. In Knowledge …