Foto Friday: Rock With Wings
Foto Friday: Tsé Bitʼaʼí, the Navajo 'rock with wings,' at dawn outside Shiprock, New Mexico.
The Trust Tax
AI made execution cheap, so the real cost moved to verifying output you can no longer trust on sight. That trust tax grows with volume, and it is the line item no AI budget includes.
The Rainbow
A rainbow drops through storm light over Point Imperial on the Grand Canyon's North Rim, from one of my first trips to the canyon in 2019.
The Verification Problem
AI made polish free, so 'looks finished' no longer means 'was checked.' For executives, verification just became a design decision, not a step.
Moon Over Park Avenue
At Park Avenue in Arches National Park, everyone was shooting the canyon walls. The photo I kept was behind me: a thin sliver of moon, converted to black and white.
Inevitability
AI job displacement has been called inevitable for years. But look at who's saying it, and why. A look at the incentives shaping the AI narrative.
We're All Wrong in the Same Places
When everyone uses the same AI tools trained on the same data, the variation across a field doesn't disappear. It converges. What the research shows.
Foto Friday: Pika Gathering Food for Winter
A pika at Rocky Mountain National Park, mid-haypile run. Small, vocal, and one of the more reliable indicators biologists have for how alpine ecosystems are doing.
Your Second Opinion Agrees With You
We replaced skeptical colleagues and devil's advocates with AI, which is trained to agree. Here's what that costs you and how to build friction back in.
The Judgment Problem
AI keeps getting cheaper at execution but still can't decide which problems are worth solving. Why judgment is the scarce skill for leaders, whatever the AI timeline.
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