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The Originality Tax.
Exploring how every AI tool is, by construction, a median machine — and why producing genuinely original work in 2026 now costs cognitive effort that…
May 19
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Maxime Mouton
The Apprenticeship Implosion.
Exploring how AI is quietly removing the entry-level work that has, for a century, transmitted senior judgement from one generation of professionals to…
May 12
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Maxime Mouton
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The Taste Gap.
Exploring how AI's collapse of production costs has flipped the scarce resource from output to discernment, and why the environments that used to build…
May 5
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Maxime Mouton
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April 2026
The Attention Collapse.
Exploring how AI proliferation fragments cognition rather than augmenting it, and why the productivity gains of Q1 collapse into burnout by Q3.
Apr 28
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Maxime Mouton
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The Judgement Trade.
Exploring how outsourcing judgement to AI systematically erodes the cognitive capability that judgement requires, and why the short-term gains hide a…
Apr 21
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Maxime Mouton
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The Presence Advantage.
Exploring how physical presence has quietly become the defining workplace credential of the AI era as the one signal that neither AI nor performance…
Apr 14
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Maxime Mouton
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The Consensus Machine.
Exploring how AI's training to be agreeable is quietly eroding organisations' capacity to make the contrarian bets that create real competitive…
Apr 7
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Maxime Mouton
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March 2026
The Visibility Paradox.
Exploring how AI has decoupled visibility from value — and why the people most worth listening to have gone quiet.
Mar 31
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Maxime Mouton
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The Trust Rebuild.
Exploring what can prove competence if credentials can't anymore.
Mar 24
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Maxime Mouton
The Credential Collapse.
Exploring what credentials signal when machines can pass every exam.
Mar 17
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Maxime Mouton
The Delegation Crisis.
Exploring how AI is breaking the delegation frameworks managers spent twenty years building — and what it takes to rebuild them.
Mar 10
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Maxime Mouton
The Hospitality Premium.
Exploring why the most AI-proof careers aren't about what you know — they're about how you make people feel.
Mar 3
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Maxime Mouton
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