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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 › Tony Walt
Contributing Author

Tony Walt

EffectiveUI
Tony Walt

Tony Walt is the design and technical director of Rich Media at EffectiveUI, where he oversees interface development and rich media integration. Tony believes in creating unique, immersive, user-friendly experiences and thrives on pushing the bounds of user interaction models while creating unexpected experiences.  Tony has worked on a variety of projects, including for the following clients: Wells Fargo, Qwest, Microsoft, The Discovery Channel, Audi, The Learning Channel, Adobe, Oakley and T-Mobile.  Previously, Tony founded and ran Fusion Media Interactive (FMI), a production agency specializing in 3D, interaction and motion design, that was integrated within Effective UI in 2007. A graduate of the Art Institute of Colorado, Tony’s experience includes 3D, video, motion and digital design, and interface development. 

Contributions to UXM

2 pieces
1
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