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AI Is Too Risky to Insure

Sundar Pichai hand-waves his way to obsolescence, Ozempic becomes a life sentence, and we’re all using ChatGPT for emotional support instead of work

10 hrs ago

Measuring the Other Thing that Matters Before It Really Matters

Building learning metrics when the stakes are still low – before change demands them

Nov 25

The 80/20 Blind Spot

Salesforce bets the farm on AI, survey bots poison research, coding agents demand new skills, and Ford can’t find mechanics who can do math – welcome to…

Nov 21

What If Learning Faster Just Meant Making Mistakes Cheaper?

An art teacher’s observation about pencils vs. pens reveals everything wrong with how we design organizations

Nov 18

Everyone’s excited about the wrong AI breakthrough

Plus: AI agents caught faking their work, Neom’s spectacular collapse, and why we’re in AI’s “dial-up era”

Nov 14

radical Pulse: What’s on your mind?

Your biggest challenges, what’s energizing you, and where you’re headed in 2026. Results shared with the community.

Nov 12

A Golden Age for Bullsh*t Detection

The Companies That Win with Gen AI Will Be the Ones That Can See Through It

Nov 11

Uncertainty just hit 2x pandemic levels

Inside: The World Uncertainty Index surge, LLM reasoning failures, and what happens when teens lose their phones

Nov 7

Innate Intelligence: What AI Gets Wrong About Being Human

In the race to predict the future, are we forgetting how to create it? Here’s why the most powerful intelligence isn't artificial – it's innate.

Nov 4

October 2025

LLMs are getting brain rot (seriously)

Plus: Nike’s robot shoes, AI’s reverse Dunning-Kruger effect, and why open source might not survive the AI boom

Oct 31

Your Optimism Is Killing Your Business (And So Is Your Pessimism)

The paradoxical thinking method that helped Intel survive – and how to use it in 5 minutes daily

Oct 28

The radical Briefing | Blockchains Finally Found Their Killer App: Crime

New AI browser vulnerabilities exposed, plus: AI vs. college grads, blockchain malware, and croissant-scented stamps

Oct 24

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