Shaping Minds

The Competence Theatre.

Exploring how AI-assisted interview cheating has turned hiring into an unfalsifiable performance, and why the honest candidates, not the cheaters, are…

Oct 6 • Maxime Mouton

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September 2026

The Stalled Escalator.

Exploring why a record number of workers are calling themselves loyal when what they actually are is stuck — and what happens when the frozen job market…

Sep 29 • Maxime Mouton

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The Fluency Mirage.

Exploring how AI's fluency has quietly decoupled from its competence, and why the people willing to slow down and doubt a polished answer are becoming…

Sep 22 • Maxime Mouton

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The Memory Leak.

Exploring why organisations have never had faster access to knowledge and have never been worse at making any.

Sep 15 • Maxime Mouton

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The Expectation Ratchet.

Exploring why the time AI saves never reaches the person who saved it.

Sep 8 • Maxime Mouton

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The Articulation Debt.

Exploring how the paradox that protected human judgement from automation for 60 years — we know more than we can tell — has quietly inverted into a…

Sep 1 • Maxime Mouton

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August 2026

The Vigilance Trap.

A radiologist at a large teaching hospital gets a new AI triage tool.

Aug 25 • Maxime Mouton

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The Coordination Tax.

Exploring why AI's enormous gains in individual speed keep failing to show up in organisational output.

Aug 18 • Maxime Mouton

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The Feedback Vacuum.

Daniel Okafor had been writing Python for three years when his team asked him to pick up Trio, a concurrency library nobody else on staff knew well…

Aug 12 • Maxime Mouton

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The Exception Economy.

Exploring how AI's absorption of routine work is converting every knowledge job into an emergency room.

Aug 5 • Maxime Mouton

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July 2026

The Confidence Illusion.

Exploring why AI hasn't made professionals less capable, and how it has broken the feedback loop that used to keep their confidence honest.

Jul 29 • Maxime Mouton

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The Legibility Deficit.

Exploring how the ability to make your thinking visible, structured, and machine-interpretable is becoming the decisive professional skill of the…

Jul 21 • Maxime Mouton

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