For two decades, the dominant strategy of the internet was simple: collect more behavior than your competitors, correlate it harder, and turn those correlations into recommendations. Amazon learned …
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.
Designing for Absorption: The Digestion Gap, Part IV
From Awareness to Architecture Earlier in this series, we diagnosed the Digestion Gap: how organizations consume more change than they can process, leaving them overstimulated but …
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The Digestion Gap, Part III: Understanding the Dynamics of Organizational Change
Most organizations do not fail to change because they resist it. They fail because they cannot digest it fast enough to stay healthy. In earlier explorations of the Digestion Gap, we saw how …
The Digestion Gap, Part II: Diagnosing the Modern Organization
AI didn’t just accelerate work; it rewired our metabolism for it. Across industries, organizations are consuming more data, tools, and change initiatives than their people or processes can absorb. …
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The Architecture of Thriving: Love, Work, and the Energy Between Us
Last week, I wrote that the difference between surviving and thriving is who stands beside you. Since then, I’ve been thinking about what happens between us once we’re standing there. Because …
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The Difference Between Surviving and Thriving Is Who Stands Beside You
A few weeks ago, I hit a wall. Not the kind you can muscle through with a weekend off or a motivational podcast. The kind that forces you to stop, to face the accumulated weight of personal loss, …
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