Forward Slash

Comprehension in the age of AI: are you managing reality or a convenient fiction?

Executive teams and boards alike assess, decide and provide strategic direction based on their understanding of the situation and capabilities of a…

Jun 4 • Alexandros P.

A cheap proxy instead of a hard answer

Faced with fundamental questions whose answers carry real consequences, human groups often reach for a cheap proxy rather than engage the hard thing in…

Jun 2 • Alexandros P.

March 2026

What's missing matters more than what's shown

Anthropic has written a governance document for what is becoming the epistemic infrastructure of human civilization. It is, in structural terms, the…

Mar 31 • Alexandros P.

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Talks with an alien intelligence

Senator Bernie Sanders posted a recording of an experiment that looks like mankind holding a summit with an alien species that's reached our planet…

Mar 22 • Alexandros P.

Invisible enclosures

Before our very eyes, a major battle for liberty in knowledge and thinking is taking place. Waged by private interests exploiting the tunnel vision that…

Mar 16 • Alexandros P.

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Semblance of performance

In AI assisted work the volume and apparent quality of output are often only very thin layer of varnish. The experienced eye identifies it as the…

Mar 11 • Alexandros P.

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Someone else's choices

Meta is mass distributing its Ray-Ban glasses. What do they reveal about the questions we fail to ask? What design choices do we condone the moment we…

Mar 10 • Alexandros P.

The question China asked

When Beijing regulates how AI systems present themselves, banning anthropomorphism, many Western commentators see authoritarianism. They’re not wrong …

Mar 4 • Alexandros P.

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February 2026

Your change methodology wasn't built for this world

When traditional change methods are not simply failing. They're pointing you and your organization towards the polar opposite of what AI-era digital…

Feb 19 • Alexandros P.

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The right distance

On the value of complexity, the perils of outsourcing comprehension and discernment, the importance of the right external eye, and the deliberate act of…

Feb 17 • Alexandros P.

January 2026

Les IA contemporaines: instruments de guerre non-cinétique qu'on traite comme des agents sociaux

Les produits d'IA conversationnelle et cognitive sont souvent vus comme des faits accomplis techniques, là où ils doivent être pensés comme les derniers…

Jan 22 • Alexandros P.

Two Boards, One Abdication: How Digital Governance Falls Through the Cracks

Who governs the digital commons? Nobody. By design. Company boards dismiss technology as "implementation detail." Architecture boards govern through…

Jan 10 • Alexandros P.

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