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Season 2 Episodes 01–06 · June–August 2026 6 Episodes
The Best Answer Arrives After the Meeting
The verbal Operating Brief. A watch list for reads, decision windows on the agenda, and a three-line record at every close: three changes that give your organization an asynchronous way to decide.
Listen + read the transcript →Change One Artifact. That Is the Whole Move.
The verbal Operating Brief. Three changes to the review form, the meeting agenda and what a review actually scores, what each costs to build and to run, and what each one stops.
Listen + read the transcript →You're Not Coaching a Person. You're Missing a Dimension.
The diagnostic vocabulary. Six failure dimensions where communication actually breaks, the sentence each one gets recorded as instead, and one audit question each. Anchored in Schein.
Listen + read the transcript →Stop Coaching the Person. Design the Interface.
The Arc 2 opener. A communication failure happens at the interface between two cognitive systems, and coaching the person cannot fix an interface. The deficit-to-interface move, and the Monday test.
Listen + read the transcript →What You're Actually Buying When You Buy AI
Every organization thinks it is buying efficiency. What you are actually buying is a change in the kind of thinking your organization runs on, and the next arc starts where that signal gets lost.
Listen + read the transcript →Judgment Was the Boss's Job. AI Made It Everyone's.
The How-phase opener. The apex inverted: judgment was the reserved skill of the top, and the age of AI forces it to every level. What leading becomes, and the three moves.
Listen + read the transcript →Season 1 Episodes 01–09 · April–June 2026 9 Episodes
You've Been Vibe Leading. The Age of AI Is Where It Ends.
The arc closer. You've been vibe leading, and the age of AI is where it ends. Deferring the decision is not neutral: it keeps the inherited industrial architecture running by default.
Listen + read the transcript →What Cognitive Architecture Actually Means
The discipline we run on our machines and deny our people. What cognitive architecture means, why it stayed invisible, and how leaders design it.
Listen + read the transcript →The Vatican Named the Moral Stakes. Here Is the Architecture.
Pope Leo XIV's AI encyclical names dignity as a precondition, not a reward. A structural reading of the convergence across the four dimensions of cognitive architecture.
Listen + read the transcript →I Experience Cognition the Way AI Computes. That Is Not a Metaphor.
Autistic cognition as predictive processing, and the functional parallel to how large language models compute.
Listen + read the transcript →Cognitive Architecture Is the Deadline
The workforce already adopted AI. An inherited operating model stretched past its conditions fails exponentially, not gradually.
Listen + read the transcript →You're Not Burned Out. You're Misrouted.
Burnout reframed as a routing problem, not a personal failure. When the load comes down, the capacity comes back, because nothing was broken.
Listen + read the transcript →The 24-Point Gap Isn't a Wellness Problem. It's a Design Problem.
The measurable cognitive-performance gap between designed and undesigned organizations, sourced from WEF and McKinsey Health Institute research.
Listen + read the transcript →Cognitive Architecture: Execution Is Leaving. Judgment Is What Stays.
The arc opener. Execution is leaving the table on both sides; what stays in human hands is the architecture of judgment itself.
Listen + read the transcript →I Think I Found the Unit of Cognition.
The cognitive episode as a measurable design variable, linking autistic cognition, neural oscillations, predictive processing, and AI context windows.
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