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A small selection of recent essays — pieces I want to point readers to first. Most also live on Medium. Chinese versions are usually on my WeChat Official Account (不二Talk).

  • When AI Enters the Workplace cover

    When AI Enters the Workplace, Who Is Still Thinking?

    If AI can now generate almost any artifact on demand, what exactly are we still holding humans accountable for inside our organizations — speed, or sense? Output, or understanding?

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  • Involution Without Exit cover

    Involution Without Exit

    We are building systems that grow ever more powerful, while shrinking the space in which human judgment can matter. We are optimizing faster than we are learning how to live inside what we have built. To see this clearly is already a form of resistance.

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  • DEI in workplace cover

    Why DEI Struggles to Show ROI — and What Research Can Actually Do

    DEI doesn't fail because it lacks value. It fails because its value is rarely visible on short-term financial reports.

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  • The power of words cover

    When Someone Pauses on a Sentence, Writing Has Already Worked

    In a time when content is abundant and attention is scarce, careful reading is always the fuel for my writing.

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  • AI Isn't the Threat cover

    AI Isn't the Threat, Ambiguity Is — and Only Leaders Who Understand This Will Win

    Whenever markets become more uncertain, complex, or risky, the demand for human judgment increases.

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  • Decluttering the mind cover

    Ignorance: I Live in a Trash Heap

    We don't drown in what we lack — but in what we refuse to discard.

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  • Policy and deafness cover

    When a System Stops Serving People — Losing Hearing Wasn't the Hardest Part, Navigating the System Was

    When a system sustains its procedures instead of serving people, it naturally evolves into a burden.

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  • A dashboard of productivity metrics

    Why Being Organized Doesn't Mean Being Effective

    We have never had so many tools designed to make us effective. And we have never felt so constantly behind.

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  • An INTJ person thinking about humanity

    Human'kind'? Rethinking Human Nature in the Quiet

    People don't act worse because they are evil, but because systems bring out the worst in them.

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