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Dressed as Disruption: Everyone's Wearing It This Quarter, In Wake of Dorsey's Block Cuts

Dorsey's Block Cuts | Markets reward the AI transformation narrative. They punish admissions of mismanagement. That incentive structure is doing a lot…

Mar 15 • Jesse Parent and Bridgecraft

Design Is the New Tobacco, Architecture as Liability | Meta & YouTube Verdicts

This week's social media rulings actually established, and why anyone building technology should be paying attention.

Mar 26 • Jesse Parent

Yes, It Is Dangerous to Go Alone

On affirming what we were not able to hand the next generation, and why it's worth saying out loud

Mar 20 • Jesse Parent

Vibe Coding Grew Up. Now It’s Designing.

Google Stich: What happens when the interface is just... describing what you want

Mar 19 • Jesse Parent and Bridgecraft

Big Tech Bets: The Competitor No One Puts in the Pitch Deck

On the real competitive question facing AI startups and the companies deciding whether to buy from them

Mar 15 • Jesse Parent and Bridgecraft

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On 'Behavior, Purpose and Teleology': Enduring Insights from a Cybernetics Classic

Oct 17, 2024 • Jesse Parent

A Beacon for Philosopher-Builders | AugLab Summit at MIT

Sep 1, 2025 • Jesse Parent

A note on Community & Leadership in the Wake of Stability

Jun 11, 2025 • Jesse Parent

Big Tech Bets: The Competitor No One Puts in the Pitch Deck

Mar 15 • Jesse Parent and Bridgecraft

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Jes Parent | Between Worlds

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On the strategic landscape leaders are navigating, and what to do about it: AI, organizational change, and the conditions shaping how work gets done.

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The Rise of Meaning-Shaped Interactions

When the shape of thought replaces thought itself

Mar 4 • Jesse Parent

Institutions Built for Steel Mills Are Governing AI

The Anthropic-Pentagon standoff, the epistemology of “all lawful use,” and what happens when governance infrastructure can’t keep pace with the…

Feb 27 • Jesse Parent

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Operating Conditions

Vibe Coding Grew Up. Now It’s Designing.

Google Stich: What happens when the interface is just... describing what you want

Mar 19 • Jesse Parent and Bridgecraft

Dressed as Disruption: Everyone's Wearing It This Quarter, In Wake of Dorsey's Block Cuts

Dorsey's Block Cuts | Markets reward the AI transformation narrative. They punish admissions of mismanagement. That incentive structure is doing a lot…

Mar 15 • Jesse Parent and Bridgecraft

Big Tech Bets: The Competitor No One Puts in the Pitch Deck

On the real competitive question facing AI startups and the companies deciding whether to buy from them

Mar 15 • Jesse Parent and Bridgecraft

Institutions Built for Steel Mills Are Governing AI

The Anthropic-Pentagon standoff, the epistemology of “all lawful use,” and what happens when governance infrastructure can’t keep pace with the…

Feb 27 • Jesse Parent

Cost of Indecision: The invisible tax leaders impose with poor decision strategy (FHTT)

Diagnosing quality decisions + reflections on a grand-daddy bottleneck that causes people to quit, projects to fail, and companies to diminish

Jun 22, 2025 • Jesse Parent

Scholarly Notes

Lifespans and Timescales: Designing for Resilience, Relevance, and Regeneration

Equipping the Longevity Generation with Destination Discernment and the Architecture of Enduring Flourishing

Jun 2, 2025 • Jesse Parent

Notes: MIT's Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing Symposium 2025

Notes from the year-end showcase event on Bias, Deliberation, and the Future of Ethical Computing.

May 13, 2025 • Jesse Parent

Data Tools: Assessing Datasets with Data Nutrition Labels

At-a-glance "ingredients list" and snapshot of dataset quality and composition — designed to help data teams assess fit before EDA and encourage…

Mar 7, 2025 • Jesse Parent

On 'Behavior, Purpose and Teleology': Enduring Insights from a Cybernetics Classic

A deep dive into the 1943 paper by Rosenblueth, Wiener, and Bigelow, its historical context, and its continuing contributions to philosophy of science…

Oct 17, 2024 • Jesse Parent

Michael Levin’s Allusion to Ethical & Social Frameworks

"but also for development of ethical/social frameworks that will become essential in the future"

Sep 26, 2023 • Jesse Parent

Mentorship & Early Career Growth

First Time on a Panel? Advice on how to make the most of speaking opportunities for newbies

Tips for those venturing into the role of a speaker, and how to manage uncertainty in conversation - when and how to facilitate a great panel…

Apr 11, 2025 • Jesse Parent

Applying to Google Summer of Code: Top Tips from a Multi-Year GSoC Mentor

Dos and Don'ts from over five years within the GSoC program. Part 1 in a series of Google Summer of Code topics: this time, advice for Contributors on…

Apr 11, 2025 • Jesse Parent and JOPRO

Success: not at what cost, but to what end?

What Kind of Success Are We Pursuing? A brief unpacking the values and visions that guide our destinations. Part 1 in a series on re-considering how…

Mar 26, 2025 • Jesse Parent

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