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Season 7—Spring 2026 · 15 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

The Pyramid Was
Always Wrong

Structure Before
Features

Schwartz ← Latest

Contributing Author

Matthew Barzun

UX Magazine Fellow

MB

Matthew Barzun has served as U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom and Sweden, as national finance chair for President Obama’s 2012 campaign, and as an early CNET employee. He is the author of The Power of Giving Away Power.

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BOOK EXCERPT: The Power of Giving Away Power

2026-08-17◆ Class of 2026