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Season 7—Spring 2026 · 13 episodes · Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change

Boring AI
is Good AI

Gordon

Why AI Scaffolding
Matters More than Use Cases

Decentralized
AI is the Future

Canonical
Knowledge is Key

What AI as
Cheap Prediction Means

Cheap Prediction,
Expensive Change

Folk Law &
Fax Machines

Inside The
Infinity Machine

Crisis Is
Your Opening

The Confabulation
Machine

No Strategy
Without Vision

When Agents Have
Wallets, Trust Is Currency

Nuclear Fusion,
No Power Lines

The Checklist Your
Deck Is Missing

Knowing Before
Doing

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Contributing Author

John Boykin

Senior User Experience Architect & Researcher

John Boykin answers to user experience designer, information architect, interaction designer, information designer, and UX researcher. He’s been doing all of the above for over 10 years. Clients include Walmart, Macy’s and Bloomingdale’s, Blue Shield, Bank of America, Visa, Symantec, NBC, HP, Janus, Prosper, and Mitsubishi Motors. His site, wayfind.com, will tell you more than you want to know.

Contributions to UXM

7 pieces

1

Class of 2016

UX Haikus

2016-04-05◆ Class of 2016

2

Class of 2016

Probability: A UX Designer’s Second-Best Friend

2016-03-07◆ Class of 2016

3

Class of 2016

Stop Helping Me, Google Calendar Autosuggest #wtfUX

2016-02-08◆ Class of 2016

4

Class of 2015

The Entrance Is the Exit … Obviously #wtfUX

2015-08-25◆ Class of 2015

5

Class of 2014

Half-Math and That Gushing Hole in Your Bucket

2014-12-09◆ Class of 2014

6

Class of 2014

Simplicity, It’s Complicated

2014-09-09◆ Class of 2014

7

Class of 2014

Everything I Really Need to Know about User Experience I Learned in Sunday School

2014-02-24◆ Class of 2014