Leadership Stories
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Eighty-Two Letters
A German radio message went unread for eighty-five years. Last week, an AI program and a man with a Sunday read it in ten hours.
Eighty-One Years
One aircraft and one bomb ended a war and opened a new age. Weeks earlier, its builders had asked the President to think twice.
Smart Just Got Cheap
Intelligence is now infrastructure. Wisdom and judgment are not. What Eisenhower's D-Day decision says about the age of AI.
The Frontier and the Network
Washington is guarding the AI engine. The advantage may lie in the track: adoption, standards, and the rails everyone builds on.
Character Does Not Scale
Pope Leo XIV's first encyclical and the case for remaining human in an age of AI. The danger isn't machines becoming us.