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What deserves confidence when the evidence does not determine the answer?
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We keep saying judgment will matter more. I have been saying it too. But before we build careers, organizations and AI systems around that assumption, I think we need to understand what we're actually talking about.
Read articleIf judgment is an assessment, the harder question is how to tell whether it was a good one. Outcomes help, but they can also mislead.
Read articleAn ongoing inquiry that narrows judgment, separates it from adjacent concepts, and asks how assessments are evaluated, learned from, formed and scaled across an organization.
Explore seriesA progression from filtering signal to creating context, establishing credibility and synthesizing trusted inputs into new understanding.
Explore seriesCompanies do not scale judgment by preserving it perfectly. They make parts of decision systems durable. The challenge is keeping rules, metrics and AI assessments valid and updatable once they gain operational force.
Read articleExperience does not automatically produce good judgment. What matters is whether it gives us useful signal, corrective feedback, and patterns that transfer.
Read articleA certification needs one correct answer. Real work has an annoying habit of adding an asterisk.
Read articleIf judgment is an assessment, the harder question is how to tell whether it was a good one. Outcomes help, but they can also mislead.
Read articleJudgment is not one thing. It is an assessment, separate from reasoning, preference, creation, decision and authority. Making those distinctions visible makes consequential decisions easier to inspect.
Read articleWe keep saying judgment will matter more. I have been saying it too. But before we build careers, organizations and AI systems around that assumption, I think we need to understand what we're actually talking about.
Read articleSubstack’s new detector can estimate whether text looks AI-generated. It cannot determine whether a human thought, understood, and owned the argument.
Read articleAI writing detectors can misclassify polished human writing. A practical look at style, authorship and the limits of detection.
Read articleSomeone read two pieces I had written months apart and named the connection I had never made explicit. That exchange stayed with me. The writing was the occasion. The question it surfaced was something else entirely: what it means to stand behind a contribution.
Read articleThis week I made a design decision that bothered me. A personal AI skill-readiness scanner I am experimenting with must never say the skill is safe. It took me a moment to understand why that bothered me. That is not a tool. That is an alibi.
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