Charles Blain

Charles Blain

18
Jun

Why Nothing Ever Gets Simpler

Add complexity. Never subtract. Every process layers on top. Every "improvement" becomes permanent baggage. Organizations are one-way complexity
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17
Jun

You Can't Control Emergence

There's a marketing campaign running right now that's about to backfire spectacularly. And the team who
16
Jun

The Automation of Honesty

Machines don’t have egos to protect. They just report what they see. No spin. No excuses. This scares us.
13
Jun

Catching Intelligence [Part 5 of 5]

How do we build systems that reward truth over comfort? Most teams say they want the truth... (they really don&
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12
Jun

Catching Intelligence [Part 4 of 5]

The Difference Between Being Right and Being Useful Being right feels good. Being useful changes everything. Socrates was considered the
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11
Jun

Catching Intelligence [Part 3 of 5]

I used to think the loudest voice was the most confident. (Turns out I had it backwards.) The person talking
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10
Jun

Catching Intelligence [Part 2 of 5]

That moment when someone says "I don't understand" in a meeting? That's not confusion.
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09
Jun

Catching Intelligence [Part 1 of 5]

Ever notice how software handles problems better than teams do? When something goes wrong in code, the system doesn'
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06
Jun

The Fractal Reading Revolution [Part 4 of 4]

Here's what changed everything. I'm not limited to the edge of any book anymore. I can
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05
Jun

The Fractal Reading Revolution [Part 3 of 4]

Here's where everything changed for me. I started using Google NotebookLM as my reading coach. I upload PDFs.
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