AI isn’t eliminating human work. It’s redistributing human judgment, away from routine tasks and into the narrow zones where ambiguity is high, mistakes are costly, and trust actually matters. Most Read from Fast Company This shift helps explain a growing disconnect in the AI conversation. On one hand, models are improving at breathtaking speed. On the other, many ambitious AI deployments stall, scale more slowly than expected, or quietly revert to hybrid workflows. The issue isn’t capability. It’s trus ...

Core Idea - The key to breaking through and conveying the world is not starting with the stakeholders [1] Animation Focus - The animation focuses on the difference between "Stakes" and "Stakeholders" [1]

Core Idea - The focus should be on the stakes involved rather than the stakeholders when trying to understand and convey the world [1] Source - Mike Benz's approach emphasizes prioritizing the stakes to effectively communicate a perspective [1]

Why do some stories captivate us while others are quite forgettable? Why can a book or a movie with very little action in it hold our attention while others will feel quite flat no matter how many high octane combat scenes get shoehorned in? While there probably isn't any single answer to this question, I do believe there is a blanket answer that probably applies in most circumstances. And that is stakes. Yeah. If nothing is at stake, we have no reason to be concerned and therefore no reason to be drawn in ...