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Season 7—Spring 2026  ·  12 episodes  ·  Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change
Boring AI
is Good AI
Gordon
Why AI Scaffolding
Matters More than Use Cases
Flowers · S6
Decentralized
AI is the Future
Goertzel
Canonical
Knowledge is Key
DosSantos
What AI as
Cheap Prediction Means
Gans
Cheap Prediction,
Expensive Change
Goldfarb
Folk Law &
Fax Machines
Pahlka
Inside The
Infinity Machine
Mallaby
Crisis Is
Your Opening
Nitze
The Confabulation
Machine
Ratliff
No Strategy
Without Vision
Evergreen
When Agents Have
Wallets, Trust Is Currency
Cohen Freue
Nuclear Fusion,
No Power Lines
Frankle
The Checklist Your
Deck Is Missing
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Fellows › Karel Barnoski
Contributing Author

Karel Barnoski

UX Magazine Fellow
Karel Barnoski

Karel Barnoski is currently Director of 2octave, an audio design company specializing in product sonification for interaction, audio design strategy, and audio branding. Karel has created award-winning sound for products ranging from digital cameras to kitchen appliances. Karel's passion for innovative sound design has made a positive impact on products consumers interact with every day. Karel Barnoski, born March 2, 1977, was raised in Amsterdam, New York. He took interest in the arts at an early age and went on to study design at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Here he earned a BFA in Illustration and a MFA in Computer Graphics. Currently, Karel works as a designer for Element K, a leading e-learning company. He also directs 2octave, his Rochester-based visual and sound design studio. 2octave's most recent projects included a partnership with Kodak to develop cutting-edge sound design for their 2005 digital camera portfolio.

Contributions to UXM

2 pieces
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Book Excerpt  ·  Crisis Engineering

The Crisis Worth Using

The five indicators of a genuinely useful crisis—and the difference between the kind that opens a window for transformational change and the kind that merely accelerates collapse. Excerpted from Crisis Engineering.

7 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis
2
Guest Article

When the Window Opens: A Field Guide to Crisis Seizing

Written for UXM as a companion to the episode. Not theory—what Marina actually does when she walks into a failing system with a 90-day mandate and no authority to hire. Practical, specific, and unsettling in the best way.

11 min read April 2025 ◆ The Useful Crisis

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The Useful Crisis
S7 Ep. 4  ·  7 pieces  ·  April 2025