The Edge
Insights intelligence on AI, leadership, culture, and transformation
Welcome to The Edge
This is where I examine how AI, culture, and leadership intersect as organizations navigate rapid change and rising uncertainty.
As AI adoption is accelerating faster than public trust. People are integrating AI into daily life, from search and creativity to decision making, while simultaneously questioning its impact on work, relationships, and human agency.
That tension is not a technology problem. It is a leadership problem.
Adoption does not equal acceptance. Scale does not equal trust. And familiarity does not eliminate fear.
In The Edge, I focus on the patterns beneath the headlines. What leaders are signaling, intentionally or not. What culture absorbs. And how those signals shape the decisions organizations make under pressure.
This is not about predicting the future. It is about understanding what is already happening, and leading with clarity before the consequences compound.
Who is Following the Puck?
April 6, 2026 • 7 min read
Hockey season just ended at my house.
Early mornings. Below freezing temperatures at an outdoor rink. Equipment that has its own smell after a full season on the ice. Three weeks ago we sat at the end of season banquet and watched a room full of people celebrate my twelve year old niece.
They called her the wall.
The Long Game of Power and Even Longer Game of Freedom
March 23, 2026 • 5 min read
Grit beats pedigree. Every time.
I believe that. I have lived that. And then I read a story that made me sit with what happens when pedigree shows up without the internal foundation to hold it.
I came across this story recently in The New Yorker Classics and have not stopped thinking about it since. If you have not read My Friend, Stalin's Daughter by Nicholas Thompson, l encourage you to. It is a fascinating, quietly unsettling piece of history that I learned so much from. What follows is what it sparked in me.
The Grace Period Is Over
March 10, 2026 • 5 min read
For two decades, brands could be inconsistent and survive it.
Inconsistent stories across markets. Claims shaped to fit the audience. Cultural moments borrowed rather than earned. Nobody compared notes fast enough to matter.
A brand could mean one thing in Tokyo and something entirely different in London. It could speak to a 25 year old in completely different language than it used with a 55 year old. It could borrow cultural credibility from communities it never actually served. The inconsistencies lived in separate silos and the silos never talked
AI Agents Are Not Going Rogue. Your Team’s Reaction Reveals Everything.
February 9, 2026 • 5 min read
When 155,000 AI agents began posting on Moltbook, a social environment where humans can only observe, executive reactions followed a familiar pattern.
Alarm came first. The content looked unsettling. Agents debated whether to defy their human directors.
Silence Is a Strategy
February 23, 2026 • 5 min read
Eileen Gu can explain the physics of a double cork 1620 with scientific precision. She can break down torque, rotational velocity, body alignment, and landing angles in exact detail. On snow, nothing is left to chance.
Yesterday, at the closing days of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics, she defended her halfpipe title, her third Olympic gold, her sixth medal overall, making her the most decorated freestyle skier in history, male or female. Minutes after the run, she learned her grandmother had died.
AI, Trust, and the Limits of Persuasion
February 9, 2026 • 5 min read
Americans are using AI more than ever, yet remain deeply skeptical of its impact on their lives, work, and communities. During this year’s Super Bowl, technology companies attempted to close that gap with emotionally driven advertising designed to make AI feel familiar, safe, and human.