Season 7—Spring 2026 · 20 episodes · Through-line: the human architecture of institutional change

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

Selling to
Machines

What Agentic
Orchestration Actually Means

You Are the
Circumstances

AI Activates
Service Design

Reason & Løvlie

The Shareholder
Is the Member

Leung ← Latest

Contributing Author

Matthew Franks

UX Magazine Fellow

Meet @franknatic, the CEO of Modernist Studio. Matt helps client partners identify user centered product & service opportunities and build strategies to deliver future innovations. Matt is also an avid craftsman who will find any excuse to get to a workshop and build, weld, or CNC something into existence.

Contributions to UXM

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Class of 2021

Fear and Loathing in Design Strategy

2021-07-28◆ Class of 2021