Author: Paul Floren
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There are moments in our lives, as there are in stories, that deserve more time than we give to simply reading the words themselves. The story of Elissa is one of these. Elissa had just fled Tyre. Her brother Pygmalion had murdered her husband and seized the throne. She took what she could: a loyal…
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There is an old philosophical problem. Hume argued that memory does not just record the past; it constitutes the self. What you remember shapes what you perceive, what you decide, and what you ignore. We tend to believe that the era we live in is unique. For the most part, it is not because people…
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In Sumer, the gods held the Me.In Egypt, Thoth wrote the words before you did.In Athens, you asked a Muse.In 2026, you open a tab and ask a model. Working all day with advanced AI systems is fascinating. There is a lot of coding, but for a communicator like me, it’s interesting and oh-so-satisfying to…
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One of the hardest things to understand about AI is not how to use it effectively to be more productive and, in the process, build pretty ROI graphs that will make most everyone happy. To build these graphs, most companies now have AI strategies. With all the hype, you would have to be crazy not…
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As is often the case, some of the most important issues get put off until they can no longer be ignored. I have a nasty habit of doing this in my personal life, and over the last couple of months, I have found it bubbling over into the professional realm as I have consistently thought…
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On super-exponential AI acceleration, the failure of catch-up thinking, and what communications must become when the ground moves faster than the plan. “It is exhausting.” That is how an AI engineer described it to me. How do you keep up with something that is getting exponentially more intelligent on a curve that continues to bend…
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When I see the videos of the latest advances in robotics, machines doing cartwheels, two thoughts come to mind: the first, why would we make robots look and behave like us? Surely, there must be more efficient forms for the tasks at hand. Second, are we too at risk of becoming like machines doing cartwheels,…
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The Wisdom We Didn’t Earn: AI, Experience, and the Knowledge That Only Hurts to Get ”Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” Because of the title of his book, many believe that Dostoevsky wrote that line about crime, moral collapse, or dramatic ruin, as in this specific scene, Sonya is…
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Pick up almost any piece of writing on LinkedIn, Medium, or anywhere, really. Odds are better than even that it begins with a correction. It’s not about strategy. It’s about trust. Or: Leadership isn’t a title — it’s a practice. Or, in its aggressive form: The future of work isn’t AI replacing humans. It’s humans who use AI, replacing those…
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Gartner has confirmed what I have been watching unfold in real time across the projects we are running at Intradiegetic. By 2028, more than half of all enterprises will have stopped paying for AI copilots. Simply put the market is moving past them toward agentic AI platforms that don’t assist humans with tasks, but execute…