What is Intelligence in the Age of AI?
This is a pillar post about Intelligence in the Age of AI.
It is an invitation to stop confusing intelligence with memorization, stop confusing work with motion, and stop confusing performance with meaning.
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A Personal Manifesto for Making Work Human
Why the need for a Personal Manifesto? Why Now?
Lately, I’ve been feeling a quiet but persistent tension as I reflect on my career trajectory and the personal mission I want to follow going forward.
The tension isn’t about what I’ve done, but about who I’m becoming next.
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The AI Learning Opportunity: The Biggest of Our Lifetime
I have spent more than three decades in business and IT, learning my way through changing tools, changing markets, and changing seasons of life.
Along the way I have discovered a simple truth. The people who continue to grow are the ones who never stop learning and who build systems that make learning a daily habit.
Today that habit is easier than ever to cultivate because we have entered an AI Learning Opportunity unlike anything the world has seen.
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Simplify Life with AI: The Essentialist’s Path to Clarity
Simplify Life with AI
We live in a world where complexity is glorified. Our calendars are packed, our inboxes overflow, and our devices buzz with endless notifications.
Yet deep down, we know what we really crave is clarity, peace, and focus. The truth is that most of us don’t need to add more to our lives. What we need is to subtract.
We need to simplify life.
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The Intelligence Explosion: What Happens When AI Outruns Us?
I just finished reading James Barrat’s The Intelligence Explosion: When AI Beats Humans at Everything during my vacation in New York City and Philadelphia.
Between the buzz of Times Square, the quiet awe of walking through old churches, and the soft hum of city streets, this book left me both inspired and unsettled.
It was a reminder that while our human world moves at a certain rhythm, the world of artificial intelligence is accelerating in ways that may soon outpace our ability to keep up.
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The Death of Bullshit Jobs: How GenAI is Reshaping the Workforce
In 2018, the late anthropologist David Graeber shook the world of work with a provocative book called Bullshit Jobs.
His thesis was both devastating and liberating: millions of people spend their lives doing work that, deep down, they know doesn’t matter.
These aren’t just boring or unpleasant tasks. They’re roles that could disappear tomorrow and the world would continue on, largely unaffected.
Graeber called them “bullshit jobs,” and he categorized them into five familiar types.
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Calm Intelligence: The Hidden Edge of Successful People
There’s a difference between people who merely survive stress and those who seem to move through it with grace.
The difference isn’t luck, money, or even raw talent. It’s something I like to call Calm Intelligence.
It is the ability to stay grounded, emotionally steady, and clear-headed when the pressure is on.
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The Evolution of The Prompt
The story of The Evolution of the Prompt is not just about computing.
It is about how we, as humans, learn to ask better questions and why that matters for the kind of work we want to create in the future.
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Change is Coming. Choose Faith Over Fear.
“Change is only possible through movement.” ~Aldous Huxley
This isn’t just poetic wisdom. It’s a fundamental truth.
Whether you’re trying to rebuild your career, strengthen your marriage, improve your health, or reinvent the way you work, you must be willing to move.
Motion is the path. Action is the signal.
Every breakthrough begins not with clarity, but with courage.
Change is Coming. Are you brave enough to embrace it?
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The Human-Agent Ratio: A New Metric for the Future of Work
In the age of AI, success isn’t about replacing humans. It’s about upgrading how we work together.
In the early days of the internet, businesses scrambled to get online. Then came mobile, and everyone rushed to go digital.
Now we are entering a new era, where the line between human work and machine support is blurring faster than most leaders can keep up with.
A day does not go by when I’m having a conversation with a colleague about this.
This shift is not just technological. It is organizational. It is cultural.
And at the heart of this transformation is a new metric that may soon rival headcount, revenue per employee, or even productivity per hour.
That metric is your Human-Agent Ratio.
