Leadership & Aliveness
I Don't Think We Need Smaller Lives Anymore
The Four Burners Theory says to turn one off. I think it was written for a different world.
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Leadership & Aliveness
Margin, judgment, and the human the system is supposed to serve. Balance implies a scale. Architecture implies a house strong enough to live in.
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Margin Is the Metric for Useful AI
Speed without margin is just burnout with better tooling.
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Automation Should Not Eat the Human
When automation develops its own administrative ecosystem, it has started charging rent.
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AI Should Protect Aliveness, Not Just Increase Output
The point of AI is not to become a more efficient toaster.
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Heroics Are Usually a Design Problem
The late-night save is a signal: a broken system relying on one person's goodwill.
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