An architect described a design intent to an AI system. A word got misread in the transcription and it wasn’t caught. The building that came out the other side wasn’t wrong exactly. It was just…
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What AI Made Humanity Finally Ask
From “The Infrastructure Century: How Ten Systems Shaped Human Civilization” — Oxford Press, 2051 — “Water systems allowed humans to stop following rivers and start building cities. Roads turned isolated settlements into economies. Electricity extended…
Start With a Concept
There’s no shortage of ideas about how to redesign work right now. In architecture, before you touch the floor plan, you establish a concept. A single organizing idea that every subsequent decision answers to. Call…
Why Original Thinking Still Matters in an AI Content World
There’s a pattern emerging in how AI is being used to create content. Scrape what exists, and package it into something sellable. Push it out, and if it doesn’t land, scrape again. Then you adjust…
Why Task Force Thinking Is Changing How Organizations Work
Over the course of my career, I’ve been on more task forces than I can count, and for a long time, I thought they were one of the better ideas organizations had come up with….
Name Recognition
Name recognition creates a gravity well. The big accounts get amplified, newcomers imitate them hoping to catch some of that gravity, and the whole ecosystem collapses toward a handful of archetypes. The irony is that…