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 …
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.
Narrative Design: Building the Story That Outlasts the Title
The Postcard Problem In the first piece of this series, we named the problem: Narrative Lag, the gap between who you are becoming and the story you are still telling. In the second, we explored The …
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The Map Continues: The Power of the Translator
Most of us were raised on the myth of the "Deep Lane." We were told that the safest way to build a career was to find a niche, dig a very deep hole, and become the undisputed master of whatever was at …
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Narrative Lag: Career Strategy After the Ladder Fails
About a year ago, I started noticing something subtle before I could finally put a name to it. It felt like trying to navigate a room where someone had moved the furniture in the dark, I knew the …
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The Unsubscribe of the Mind: Attention, AI, and the Digestion Gap
This piece grew out of noticing a shift in my own attention. What I describe here is part of the Digestion Gap series, but it is also an attempt to understand a familiar experience in AI-saturated …
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The Digestion Gap on LinkedIn – 10 Years After the Resurrection
In 2016, I wrote about the rise and resurrection of LinkedIn. At the time, the platform felt like an unlikely refuge. While other social networks optimized for immediacy, outrage, and noise, …
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