Writing on leadership, AI, and HR
A weekly Substack at the intersection of AI, HR, and leadership. Reframing confusion and complexity into curiosity — with a practice of putting lightly held ideas to the test and finding what sticks.
BANI
A four-part walk through BANI — brittle, anxious, nonlinear, incomprehensible — the framework futurist Jamais Cascio coined for a world that feels exhausting, and what it asks of us as people and leaders.
Nonlinear
An Introduction to BANI with Jeremy Bearimy
Or: why everything feels exhausting these days.
Brittle
B is for Brittle
Or: Why the things that refuse to bend are the first to break.
Anxious
Braced For The Worst
Or: The night I threw a pillow at a ghost.
Incomprehensible
Draw What You See
Or: I is for Incomprehensible, and the blind contour of a career that makes no sense on paper.
The Unintended Consequences of AI
A four-part series on what we risk losing as AI shows up everywhere: from the flood of slop, to what happens when AI writes for everyone, to the tools we build for the people we love.
Part 1
Unintended Consequences of AI (Part 1?)
Or: Slop! Slop! Slopslop! Slopslop! Slop! Slopslop!
Part 2
Unintended Consequences of AI (Part 2)
Or: Why I’m worried the best thing I ever made for my son might also be the worst.
Part 3
The Unintended Consequences of AI (Part 3)
Or: What we lose when AI writes for everyone
Part 4
The Unintended Consequences of AI (Part 4)
Or: How we forget and become accidental worshippers
Recent posts
Recent
Dead Languages
Or: Why Latin might be the blueprint for teaching code in the future
Recent
He Who Fights With Monsters
Or: this was supposed to be a light and breezy article and… wait a minute… oh dammit.
Recent
The Three-Body Problem of Organizations
Or how complexity goes exponential when you add more people to a problem.
Recent
Collaboration Doesn’t Just Happen. It’s Designed.
Why defaulting to compromise is a sign of organizational weakness.
Recent
Not All Feedback Is a Gift
Or: why “what got you here won’t get you there” is bullshit.
Recent
Draw What You See
Or: I is for Incomprehensible, and the blind contour of a career that makes no sense on paper.
Want a new post every week?
The Noodle Shop lands in your inbox every week: lightly held ideas on AI, HR, and leadership, put to the test.
Subscribe to The Noodle Shop