You can't pause a race by asking the runners to stop. Every technology moratorium in history has failed for the same reason: the first mover wins. The abstainer loses. AI is no different. New piece at the link. interlinegroup.com/mix/stop-…

Every powerful technology in history has had serious people call for restraint. The printing press. The phonograph. The internet. Here's what also happened every time: someone didn't stop. Not because people are evil. Because the incentive structures are asymmetric. The first mover wins. The abstainer loses. A global AI pause isn't a policy proposal. It's a wish. interlinegroup.com/mix/stop-…

The real question isn't whether AI will improve itself. It's whether we understand what we're actually afraid of. Hint: it's not the technology. New essay at the link. interlinegroup.com/mix/stop-…

Most companies say all customers are important. In practice, some relationships carry disproportionate strategic value. Revenue. Influence. Future opportunity. Understanding which relationships deserve extraordinary attention is part of leadership. bit.ly/49r32ol #CustomerStrategy #Leadership #BusinessDevelopment #Management

Dostoevsky's character in Notes from Underground said it best: "Man is not a math formula. Sometimes he just likes to break things." The fear driving calls to pause AI is that these systems will someday perfect themselves and drop the warning label. That they'll become, in short, infallible. Dostoevsky would not be impressed. New essay on AI, Anthropic, fear, and why "Good luck" is the only honest response. interlinegroup.com/mix/stop-…

The company building the most powerful AI in the world wants everyone to pause. Their revenue run rate disagrees. New piece: Stop the World…AI Wants to Get Off interlinegroup.com/mix/stop-…

One of the things I enjoy most about reading classic literature is that the authors rarely agree with one another. Kafka explores alienation. Shakespeare explores moral collapse. Steinbeck explores memory and reputation. Sinclair Lewis explores self-deception. Different stories. The same human condition. bit.ly/47Ki6gS #ReadingWithJimmy #GreatBooks #Literature #HumanNature #ClassicsMatter

The real horror in The Lottery isn't violence. It's how ordinary people accept it. Jackson understood something uncomfortable: People can become accustomed to almost anything. bit.ly/4xi6nCT #ShirleyJackson #TheLottery #Literature #HumanNature #ReadingWithJimmy

97.4% of Pope Leo XIV's footnotes in his AI encyclical cite other Church officials. 2.6% cite outside sources — none of whom knew what a large language model was. That footnote breakdown tells you everything about the argument: it's a closed system. Social Doctrine proves Social Doctrine, and AI gets judged by principles developed before the internet existed. There's a lot worth taking seriously in Magnifica Humanitas — the concentration of AI power, the exploitation hidden in supply chains, autonomous weapons. Leo gets those right. But the Babel argument — his cornerstone — he reads backwards. Here's what Genesis actually says, and why it changes everything: bit.ly/4wXAUp2 #ArtificialIntelligence #PopeLeoXIV #MagnificaHumanitas #AIEthics #CatholicSocialTeaching #TowerOfBabel #AI #Technology #Encyclical #AIGovernance

$50 billion in projected revenue. Also: please slow down AI development. That's Anthropic's position this week. Make of it what you will. I made something of it. New piece at the link. interlinegroup.com/mix/stop-…

Nuclear weapons. Gain-of-function research. Social media algorithms. Serious people called for restraint every time. It didn't work then. It won't work now. Here's why — and what Anthropic is really doing with its pause proposal. interlinegroup.com/mix/stop-…

The most frightening line in Macbeth may not be a murder scene. It's: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." Once moral categories collapse, everything becomes negotiable. bit.ly/496BpmE #Macbeth #Shakespeare #GreatBooks #ReadingWithJimmy

John Steinbeck's Johnny Bear asks a deceptively simple question: What happens when the town gossip remembers everything? Memory becomes influence. Influence becomes power. One of Steinbeck's most unusual stories. bit.ly/40P53bh #Steinbeck #ShortStories #GreatBooks #ReadingWithJimmy

Many public debates today begin with a fight over definitions. What is fairness? What is justice? What is discrimination? What is responsibility? Before we can solve problems, we have to agree on what words mean. That was the central question behind: Crime, Choice and Humpty Dumpty bit.ly/4oDDhcn #LanguageMatters #CriticalThinking #Culture #PublicPolicy #Leadership

Anthropic is calling for a global pause in AI development. Their run rate is on track to hit $50 billion in annualized revenue by end of month. That's not a safety argument. That's market positioning dressed up as conscience. New piece: Stop the World…AI Wants to Get Off interlinegroup.com/mix/stop-…

One of the hardest business decisions is deciding what not to do. Every opportunity looks attractive in isolation. Strategy requires something harder: Choosing where not to compete. bit.ly/3Xl28VE #Strategy #Leadership #Focus #CompetitiveAdvantage

Many incentive programs fail for a surprisingly simple reason: They focus on rewards before understanding behavior. Contractors don't make decisions in a vacuum. They operate under pressure: •availability •familiarity •trust •speed •substitution risk The strongest programs recognize that loyalty is operational before it is emotional. bit.ly/3Qctf5N #SPIF #ContractorLoyalty #ChannelStrategy #BusinessDevelopment

Every leader eventually faces the same temptation: Respond immediately. Defend the position. Correct the criticism. Win the argument. But some battles create more damage than the original problem. The question is rarely: "Can we respond?" The question is: "Should we?" bit.ly/44mu0uc #Leadership #DecisionMaking #Strategy #Management

Henry David Thoreau asked a simple question: What should a person do when conscience and authority point in different directions? That question remains remarkably difficult. Perhaps that's why people are still reading Civil Disobedience. bit.ly/4uODMU4 #Thoreau #CivilDisobedience #GreatBooks #ReadingWithJimmy #Philosophy

Most discussions about AI focus on the technology. The more important question may be organizational. Some companies are learning how to use AI to accelerate thinking, research, and decision-making. Others are not. The gap between those two groups may become one of the defining business stories of the next decade. bit.ly/4dHdhd3 #AI #Leadership #Strategy #BusinessTransformation