This is where Cowen’s self-identification as an “idiot” acquires weight. He does not mean to glorify ignorance. He means to valorize receptivity. To be the idiot in the age of AI is to stand at the edge of one’s own knowledge and resist the impulse to retreat. It is not a capitulation; it is a discipline.
In our distraction-heavy world—filled with endless notifications, overflowing inboxes, and back-to-back virtual meetings—the average worker doesn’t have the mental bandwidth for a fifty-minute lecture on Holacracy versus Team Topologies.
Our job as leaders, coaches, and consultants is simple yet challenging: we... See more
I know people who get angry just from hearing the word authenticity . They insist it doesn’t exist. It never existed. It can’t possibly exist.
And maybe in their lives, as digitally constructed, it doesn’t.
This is the flip side of our culture of artificiality. Anything that threatens the dominant fakeness with reality stirs up an intense backlash.... See more
ISO/IEC 42001 is an international standard that specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) within organizations. It is designed for entities providing or utilizing AI-based products or services, ensuring responsible... See more
Psychologist Mark Travers calls the exhaustion that sets in when your work consistently diverges from your values “misalignment burnout.” He writes that when our behavior is driven by external rewards — money, status, other people’s expectations — rather than internal alignment, we gradually lose our sense of self. That dissonance builds into... See more
Anyway, whether it’s trans activists or Israelis engaging in long-term self-harm, people using slogans to answer difficult questions are not doing themselves or anyone else any favours.
For decades, the neurotic hamster in us approached knowledge management by compulsively tagging. We’d find something interesting and slap as many tags on it as we could to increase our chances of finding it again: #machine #robots #tech #ai #productivity #mindfulness.
This made sense in a pre-AI world, where tagging was the only way to ensure... See more