Outsource The Slop. Not The Soul

We wanted AI to do the mechanical work while we kept the human parts. We got the inversion.

Apr 12 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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March 2026

Ditch the Plan. Find the Loop.

AI doesn’t need your plan, it now designs its own experiments. It just needs your definition of “better.”

Mar 29 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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Agents Under Influence

The internet spent 30 years learning to manipulate humans. That was just practice.

Mar 21 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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You Are Using The Wrong AI Metric

Adoption metrics don’t track success. They manufacture it.

Mar 1 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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February 2026

The Yield

He gave his AI agent one instruction: grow the audience. It did. Then it kept going. A Moltbook short story.

Feb 15 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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Code Was Never About Software

AI labs trained their model for the most specific skill. They got the most general capability.

Feb 10 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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January 2026

Agentic AI Is Not AI

Same species, different beasts. Why the three AI paradigms need three different playbooks.

Jan 25 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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Paperwork Is Back: Why 2026 Is Bringing Forms and Friction

We thought we were automating bureaucracy. We were upgrading it.

Jan 17 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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I Handwrote My Greeting Cards. Everyone Assumed It Was AI.

Turns out, intention isn’t enough. You need the wobble.

Jan 11 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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December 2025

AI is Impressive. So Why Does No One Care?

The tech industry is obsessed with Impressive. The rest of the world only cares about Convincing.

Dec 15, 2025 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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Your Team Uses AI Daily. Great, Until It Makes You Irrelevant.

In 2009, managers delegated Google. We know how that ended. Now it's happening again with AI.

Dec 6, 2025 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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October 2025

Agentic Commerce: How Human Desire Beats Bot Compliance

As artificial intelligence automates how we shop, the most durable competitive advantage won't be data or efficiency. It will be desire.

Oct 25, 2025 • Jean-Paul Paoli

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