Provocations
More essays, articles, and random musings.
This collection focuses on how AI forces us to rethink conventional wisdom.
Core Themes:
- Talent Development: Challenging assumptions in the age of AI.
- Financial Literacy: A personal passion project on the nature of money.
- Future Readiness: Leadership and innovation through a digital lens.
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The Competency Trap
This essay examines why AI will expose the dangerous gap between what we measure and what actually matters—and why outdated assessment tools will increasingly mislabel high performers, reinforce bias, and create hidden harm.
The Unlearning Advantage
In a world of infinite information access, competitive advantage comes not from what you know, but from what you're willing to stop believing. Why "letting go" is the new organizational capability.
The Expensive Silence
Executives privately admit their training programs don't work—yet publicly celebrate completion rates and satisfaction scores. Why AI is making this silence increasingly unsustainable.
The Self-Awareness Gap
Most leadership development fails because we keep recycling methods that can't solve the core problem: you need self-awareness to develop self-awareness. Traditional approaches break down in predictable ways. For less than two minutes a day, with AI's help leaders can now generate behavioral data that accumulates indefinitely.
The Financial Literacy Paradox
We work our entire lives inside an economic system we barely understand. Why traditional financial literacy programs fail—and what actually helps people make sense of how value works.
The Money Mirage
Most people spend decades working for money but only minutes understanding how money works. This essay simplifies the core mechanics of the monetary system and explores why so many feel perpetually financially insecure—even when they "do everything right." But its deeper purpose is to show that AI has changed the learning landscape forever.
The Second Slowing
A personal reflection on cognitive changes—from chemo brain in 2003 to noticing similar patterns now with AI use. When convenience becomes invisible atrophy.
The Effort Paradox
Why AI reveals what training programs hid for decades: real learning requires struggle, not comfort. The friction you're avoiding is exactly what builds capability.