Resilience Is a Strategic Advantage
Why the ability to change your mind is worth paying for.
Writing
Essays on leadership, resilience, and artificial intelligence
Every essay since 2010, newest first: the newsletter essays and fifteen years of earlier writing from the field, from Haiti and Ebola to humanitarian technology and innovation.
The Infrastructure We Keep Promising Ourselves
Why the humanitarian reset needs shared digital public infrastructure, and an invitation to help build it
Asimov Didn’t Solve AI Safety. He showed us why it’s Hard.
A machine can follow its rules and still produce an unintended outcome.
The Slowdown Everyone Agreed On Is Missing Half the World
Over the weekend, something rare happened in the artificial intelligence industry. Three of its most competitive and often openly antagonistic leaders said the same thing on the same day.
Introducing ATLAS
For the past couple of months, I have been writing about a single idea: that AI does not replace leaders; it exposes them. Several of you have asked the obvious next question.
Announcing The AI Fluent Nation
After hearing numerous national leaders talk about the challenges of preparing their countries for the age of AI, I decided to leverage key insights from The AI Fluent Leader and provide guidance at the national level. Thus, The AI Fluent Nation was born.
AI Does Not Replace Leaders. It Exposes Them.
Most of the conversation about artificial intelligence is about what the technology can do. I want to make the case that this is the wrong conversation for a leader to be having, and that the right one is more uncomfortable.
Three Questions to Test the AI Architecture
On Monday, I argued that almost every institution has an AI strategy, and far fewer have a coherent one, and that the work of the Architect imperative is to ensure the coherent strategy exists in writing for the institution itself, not just for the...
AUGMENT: A Ninety-Second Tour
The AI Fluent Leader(https://amzn.to/42a98Yz) is built on a working framework called AUGMENT. The book gives a framework, a chapter for each of its seven imperatives, and develops each one at length.
The conversations the launch surfaced
My newest book, The AI Fluent Leader(https://amzn.to/42a98Yz), was published on Thursday. Four days in, the most useful thing I can do this morning is not promote it.