Field Notes
Working essays on AI, work, and the land.
What the field reveals that the conference room doesn’t. Specific, sourced, practitioner-authored.
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Essay · AI Adoption
The Seams: Why AI Adoption Fails, and What Actually Moves It Forward
A third of your employees believe your AI adoption is about replacement. Another 62 percent believe it’s about augmentation. The gap between those two beliefs—and the leadership signals that calcify it—is where most transformations fail.
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Essay · Adaptability
Adaptability as a Discipline: The Leadership Gap AI Is About to Expose
Most organizations going through AI transformation are running an unmarked passage. Their leaders do not know it, because the language they have for the work is project management, and project management has no concept of marking. This is the leadership gap AI is about to expose.
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Playbook · Change Management
The Adoption Matrix: A Playbook for Executives Managing Change
Your AI platform is deployed. Adoption is stuck somewhere between fifteen and thirty percent — and most of it is performative. Deployment is not adoption. This is the practitioner’s matrix for closing that gap, grounded in five frameworks behavioral science already settled.
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