AI did not commoditize expertise. It commoditized the evidence of it. And most of us built our careers on the evidence. There is a distinction most AI-and-work conversations refuse to make. …
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 Leadership Primitive
Domain-Driven Design (DDD) was always a leadership practice. Engineers just found it first. Three communities independently discovered the same organizational primitive. Software architects named …
From Digestion to Velocity: Why Decision Speed Depends on Judgment Infrastructure
Decision velocity is a function of judgment infrastructure, and most organizations are building faster pipes into a metabolism that has already stalled. A year ago, I started using the phrase “the …
The KM Renaissance: Why Your AI Strategy is Actually a Knowledge Strategy
We spend so much time debating the future of AI that we are ignoring the professionals who spent the last three decades solving its biggest flaw. A few weeks ago, I published The Field That Saw …
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Learning to Unlearn: The Decommissioning of Expertise
Unlearning is not a failure of memory, but the intentional decommissioning of mental infrastructure that has become a barrier to integration. In my last essay, The Field That Saw This Coming, I …
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The Field That Saw This Coming: Why Knowledge Management’s Long Game is Now the Most Urgent Conversation in the C-Suite
Generation is now free. Curation is now everything. One field saw this coming. The Inversion For most of human history, production was the scarce thing. Creating content, performing deep …