AI works in language, and so do organizations. That makes it the first technology that can show an organization how it thinks. These essays follow that idea from one person at a keyboard to the whole institution.
The same AI tool sharpens some people's thinking and dulls others', and the difference says more about the user than the machine.
AI reflects the structure of the mind using it, and fluency is not judgment.
Organizations reason in language, rarely design that reasoning, and forget it once they've decided.
Organizations coordinate action by coordinating judgment, and judgment happens in language.
Organizations design how they execute and leave how they think to chance.
Institutions record what they decided and lose the reasoning behind it.
Leaders design the room, and the same tool can deepen thinking or replace it.
The web, the brain and the workplace: where the argument lands outside the organization.
Most of what gets published online will soon be written and read first by machines.
Brains and language models both predict, from very different situations.
As technical skill becomes something you can ask for, working with people becomes the scarce skill.