Cam Jones

We've been here before. The symptoms repeat across time with eerie consistency. Politics feels paralyzed—parties fight but solve nothing. Leaders are reactive, never visionary. Jobs become transactional hell. Work becomes about survival, not meaning. The news is background static—constant crisis with no resolution. Everything feels heavy and gray... See more

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.

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Spotify’s current incentives indicate that they’ll continue moving away from promoting human-made (and thus independently owned) music and toward anonymous first-party (and, inevitably, AI-generated) background music. As the most widely used music streaming platform gradually transforms into an AI white noise company, where does that leave recorded... See more

When your ideas, interests, and even daily meals are largely inspired by whatever was already approved, already done, already voted on and liked, you’re only experiencing life as an echo of the masses (or the machines, if personalized based on historic preference). And in this echo chamber, genuine discovery is rare, even radical.

Our Fancy Models Aren’t Their Problem

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

So why wouldn’t a fledgling AI—even one destined to eventually become very wise and good—do some serious damage before it grows up? Will it be more like a child, learning slowly under our guidance? What will its ‘pulling the wings off flies’ phase look like? Will it treat us as abysmally as we treat other animals?

Even an AI that can think at... See more

Kate Moss is the odd supermodel out in the 90s. By comparison she has low fluency because her features are idiosyncratic and harder to understand. Kate’s eyes are feline, she’s angular and jaunty and so our brain is working harder to understand what is going on, but we become beguiled by the differences rather than the similarities and we find a... See more