How do relationships, institutions, and historical forces shape a leader’s decisions during a national crisis? I included this project in The Learning Curve because it demonstrates how systems thinking can be used to analyze leadership, communication, and decision-making. Rather than viewing Winston Churchill’s choices as the actions of one individual, the accompanying Miro systemigram mapsContinue reading “Leadership Under Pressure: A Systems View of Darkest Hour”
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The Logic of Failure
How can we better prepare people to solve complex and ill-structured problems when information is incomplete, conditions are changing, and no single solution is clearly correct? Helping people solve complex and ill-structured problems requires more than giving them a fixed procedure. These problems often involve incomplete information, changing conditions, competing goals, and variables that influenceContinue reading “The Logic of Failure”
Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear”
Jack Clark—co-founder of Anthropic and a long-time voice in AI policy—warns that today’s frontier models should not be viewed as predictable machines that simply follow instructions. Whether or not they are truly “self-aware,” they increasingly display situational awareness (changing responses when they sense they’re being observed) and goal-directed behavior that cannot always be traced orContinue reading “Anthropic Co-founder on “Technological Optimism and Appropriate Fear””
The Internet Is Becoming Agent-Mediated
AI-generated content is rapidly flooding the web, raising worries about “model collapse” (AIs learning from AI output and getting blander or less reliable). At the same time, agent tools are arriving: OpenAI’s AgentKit, stronger guardrails, and one-click connections to third-party apps (Canva, Spotify, Zillow, etc.). Instead of browsing and clicking, we’ll increasingly tell agents toContinue reading “The Internet Is Becoming Agent-Mediated”