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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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Intent Is Not Inspiration. It Is Infrastructure.
The leaders who scale are not the ones who make the most decisions — they are the ones who make their intent clear enough that other people can decide without them.
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Physical AI Isn’t a Shortlist. It’s a Sequence.
Read or skip? For enterprise architects and delivery leads deciding where physical AI lands first. If you’re tempted to pilot whatever sits at the top of Deloitte’s chart, read on — the ranking and the deployment order are not the same list. If you’ve already mapped your physical-AI work as a dependency graph, you can…
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AI May Make Work Feel Faster Without Making It Faster
AI can cut the effort a task takes without cutting the time it takes — and that gap quietly distorts how we judge productivity.
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Constraints make us better
On David Epstein’s Inside the Box, and why the most useful AI, delivery and governance work of the next two years will be done inside deliberate, well-shaped boxes. Constraints make us better. Read or skip? Read. If you’re running anything to do with AI adoption, platform engineering, governance or enterprise delivery, Epstein’s book gives you…
