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Human Magic: Leading with Wisdom in an Age of Algorithms
The 1% Book Shelf — Human Magic by Johan Roos (Routledge, 2026). Most technology shifts changed how we work. This one changes who decides. For decades the deal was simple: the tool helped, you chose. AI quietly rewrites that contract. Instead of using a system to inform a decision, we increasingly invite a system to…
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Supercommunicators Is A Leadership Book About Alignment, Not Charisma
A Beta Tester Life review of Charles Duhigg’s Supercommunicators, exploring leadership, AI adoption, trust, and conversation alignment.
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How To Not Know Is A Leadership Book For The Age Of False Certainty
A practical Beta Tester Life review of Simone Stolzoff’s How to Not Know, and why uncertainty tolerance is becoming a core AI leadership skill.
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The 80% Problem: Why Your Brain Is Outsourcing Its Judgement to AI
Cognitive surrender AI decision-making – Eight in ten people accept a wrong answer from an AI without questioning it. Not occasionally. Not when tired or distracted. Consistently, across standardised tests, even when the error is one they would have caught on their own. That is the headline finding from a University of Pennsylvania study published…
