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Thinking on the messy middle.

AI adoption tells you something true about the humans in your organization. We write about how to read what it's saying — one argument at a time, from the field, not the ivory tower.

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Culture & Trust

When Did I Stop Being Valuable?

He built the report the company ran on. When they came to modernize it, he wasn't resisting the new system — he was grieving the old identity. AI is doing this at scale, and faster.

John Adcock · July 2026 · 5 min read
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Diagnosis · Measurement

Why Are You Measuring That?

Two organizations, two AI metrics, the same problem. Why headcount and usage are three-year-old questions — and the four measures that actually tell you whether the work got better.

John Adcock · June 2026 · 6 min read
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Field Observation · Future of Work

When Intelligence Becomes Cheap

When intelligence becomes abundant, knowing more becomes table stakes. The center of gravity moves toward judgment, taste, and meaning — the things hardest to fake.

Ben Cachila · June 2026 · 6 min read
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Founder Debate · Leadership

Who Owns Which Decisions?

AI is already in the work — quietly, person by person, with no one deciding it. A founder debate on which decisions belong to leadership, which to the front line, and the managers caught between.

John Adcock & Ben Cachila · June 2026 · 8 min read
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Historical Pattern · Leadership

The Pattern We Keep Forgetting

Electrification took forty years to show up in productivity data — not because the tech was slow, but because the thinking was. The same gap is opening with AI, on a faster clock.

John Adcock · June 2026 · 7 min read
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Leadership · Culture & Trust

How Are You Going to Talk About AI?

Every leader is quietly carrying the same fear: will people sabotage this or just leave? What a CEO can actually say when the honest answer to 'will there be layoffs' is 'I don't know.'

John Adcock · May 2026 · 4 min read
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AI Adoption · Change Management

Go Do AI

No, not the pandemic. AI had finally pushed Claire over the edge. When leadership tosses the tools over the wall to hit ROI, the people who built the company feel unheard.

John Adcock · April 2026 · 4 min read

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