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AI didn't devalue expertise. It inverted the scarcity map. When the output is free, the cost of selection becomes the premium. The expensive part is everything we assumed…
www.adammonago.com/the-great-inversion-scar...
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The problem isn't that AI gets things wrong. It's that it removes the signal that something might be wrong.
www.adammonago.com/smooth-surface-certainty...
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AI didn't commoditize expertise. It commoditized the evidence of it. And most of us built our careers on the evidence. New essay on the Proof of Work Problem.
www.adammonago.com/the-proof-of-work-proble...
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Domain-Driven Design was always a leadership practice. Engineers just found it first. When teams share words but not meanings, decisions degrade. The real bottleneck isn't throughput. It's…
www.adammonago.com/the-leadership-primitive...
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Most orgs aren't information starved. They're metabolically overwhelmed. Dashboards multiplied. Copilots summarized. Decision cycles got slower.
The constraint isn't…
www.adammonago.com/digestion-velocity-decis...
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Your AI strategy isn’t an IT project. It’s a Knowledge Management strategy. 🧠🏛️
For decades, KM practitioners have been the "quiet experts" warning us about uncurated data. Now,…
www.adammonago.com/km-renaissance-ai-strate...
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Unlearning is the intentional decommissioning of mental infrastructure that has become a barrier to integration.
In the AI era, "The Learned" are often equipped for a…
www.adammonago.com/learning-to-unlearn-the-...
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The Knowledge Management field has been right about organizational knowledge for 30 years. They were just right too early. That moment has passed. New essay: The Curator's Edge.
www.adammonago.com/the-curators-edge/
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Titles are postcards from a corporate landscape that's shifting faster than language can keep up.
New essay: "Narrative Design" — on building a professional story…
www.adammonago.com/narrative-design-buildin...
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The "Deep Lane" is a trap. In an AI-driven world, depth isn't a moat, it's a bullseye.
The highest value is found at the edges where different worlds collide. We need "Translators" to move…
www.adammonago.com/map-continues-power-of-t...
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The ladder is gone. We’re moving from structures to systems. This shift creates "Narrative Lag"—when your experience outpaces the titles available to describe it.
If you…
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I wrote an essay about a quiet kind of disengagement I’ve been noticing lately.
Not unsubscribing.
Not muting.
Just… stopping the effort to process.
I call it the Unsubscribe of the…
www.adammonago.com/unsubscribe-mind-attenti...
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Ten years ago, LinkedIn worked because it respected digestion.
Today, it ingests more insight than ever—and absorbs almost none of it.
This isn’t burnout. It’s a Digestion Gap.
I wrote about what…
www.adammonago.com/digestion-gap-linkedin/
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As 2025 closed and 2026 opened, one idea kept surfacing: most organizations don’t fail from lack of ambition. They fail because they can’t integrate change at the pace it…
www.adammonago.com/a-year-of-integration-cl...
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This week I’m writing about a danger we rarely notice because it feels like safety: the illusion of consensus. In 1951, Solomon Asch showed how easily people abandon their own…
www.adammonago.com/age-inference-machines-c...
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In a world where data is everywhere but understanding is scarce, the next competitive edge isn’t information—it’s interpretation.
“Renting the Cold Start: Why Understanding-as-a-Service Will…
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Organizations today are overfed on change but undernourished in understanding.
In The Digestion Gap, Part IV: Designing for Absorption, I explore how to turn motion into…
www.adammonago.com/designing-for-absorption...
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When technology moves faster than understanding, organizations starve on a diet of their own innovation. The Digestion Gap, Part III unpacks how speed without…
www.adammonago.com/digestion-gap-part-3-und...
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We’re overfed on information but undernourished in understanding.
In Part II of The Digestion Gap, I explore the forces behind organizational indigestion—and what it reveals about work in the…
www.adammonago.com/diagnosing-modern-organi...
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Thriving isn’t just about who stands beside you — it’s about what happens between you.
Love, trust, and play aren’t luxuries. They’re the architecture of thriving.
Read “The Architecture of Thriving:…
www.adammonago.com/architecture-of-thriving...
In my last piece, I touched on how technology reshapes not just what we say but how we listen.
This essay goes deeper, exploring the darker side of attention: “predatory listening.”
www.meditatehappier.com/meditationbl...
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The difference between surviving and thriving is who stands beside you.
Support isn’t about fixing—it’s about presence, forgiveness, and trust.
We rise in relationship, not alone.
Full…
www.adammonago.com/difference-between-survi...
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📉 In 2024, >50% of grads worked jobs that didn’t require a degree.
🤖 AI is replacing entry-level tasks.
🧑🏫 Mentorship is thin.
The result? Jack’s 85 unanswered apps, Azraiel’s…
www.adammonago.com/missing-rung-ai-vanishin...
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Stepstones, Not Moonshots.
AI isn’t just rewriting jobs — it’s rewriting the org chart.
Most pilots fail because orgs consume them faster than they can absorb.
It’s time to build rituals,…
www.adammonago.com/stepstones-not-moonshots...
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My school superintendent didn’t open her letter with test scores.
She led with IT uptime.
Every job is becoming, in part, an IT job.
That’s what hybrid roles look like — the fusion of human…
www.adammonago.com/when-every-job-becomes-a...
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Your demo flopped because you're missing context, not features.
New post: How "context engineering" transforms scattered info into instant buyer understanding.
The same…
www.adammonago.com/mastering-context-contin...
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🧠 The "Digestion Gap" is killing your best ideas.
Your brain can only hold ~4 items in working memory. But you're consuming info at machine speed.
Result: Teams that generate brilliant hackathon…
www.adammonago.com/the-digestion-gap-ai/
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Ancient language patterns explain why AI transformation feels so disorienting.
Proto-Indo-European took 1000 years to spread across cultures. AI vocabularies are doing the same thing in organizations - but in…
www.adammonago.com/syntax-of-change/
Happy Sunday friends!
