On Handing Over Your Thinking
Managing the human/AI boundary intentionally.
Your organization is deciding right now, mostly by accident, how much of its thinking to outsource.
Not in a strategy meeting. In a thousand small moments: the meeting summary nobody checks against what was actually said. The first draft that quietly becomes the final draft. The question nobody asks a colleague anymore, because an answer arrives in three seconds — smooth, confident, and unsigned.
Here's the thing: this isn't anyone's negligence. These moments arrive disguised as conveniences, adopted for good reasons, and even the people thinking hardest about AI — maybe especially them — haven't yet decided how to shape the forces underneath. You can't shape what you haven't seen named.
I've spent thirty years on the other side of that line, building an external memory of my own: 645,000 ideas, over a million links, every one of them a choice I made and can stand behind. From over here, the boundary between human thinking and machine thinking doesn't look scary. It looks like the most interesting place in the world to stand.
More on this soon. Meanwhile, I'm curious: where have you noticed thinking quietly changing hands in your organization, and which of those trades would you make again, on purpose?
This article is cross-posted on Substack here and LinkedIn here. It's also here in my Brain.