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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 › Lynne Polischuik
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Lynne Polischuik

UX Magazine Fellow
Lynne Polischuik

Lynne Polischuik is a user experience strategist and interaction designer based in Vancouver, British Columbia. With nearly ten years of industry experience, Lynne held roles in digital marketing before specializing in web analytics and further refining her skills in user experience and interaction design.   Lynne has worked on a variety of projects for companies such as Happy Cog, ADP, Electronic Arts, Stanford School of Medicine, Disney Interactive, CSL Hong Kong, as well as the Government of British Columbia and several Vancouver and San Francisco-based start-ups. In 2007, Lynne received an Award of Achievement in Web Analytics from the University of British Columbia and she is both a Google Analytics and Omniture certified consultant. Lynne is currently a Local Leader for IxDA Vancouver, co-organizer of UX Book Club Vancouver and serves in an advisory capacity for The Designer Fund, a community of designers who invest in designer start-up founders through mentorship, angel funding and access to the wider design and venture capital communities.

Contributions to UXM

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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

Ideations

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