If it is not written down, there is no guarantee it happens. An agent that did the work once in a chat has not taken the job. It has performed. The next session does not inherit the performance. …
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.
Historical Knowledge Fabric
OCR makes historical pages readable. It does not make historical knowledge trustworthy. The hard problem begins after extraction. An AI-assisted knowledge system has to preserve what a source says, …
The COBOL Problem
Databases hold information. They do not pass it on. The institution still has a working store. The people who could explain what the records mean are leaving, or already gone. What sits in the …
Metabolism Management
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. …
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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