This week, the company announces AI is the new team lead, so Dawg Raymond is currently teaching a laptop how to perfectly mimic his existential dread.

The software executes a loop, and you react to the shadow. You mistake a racing pulse for preparation, vibrating at the desk instead of strategizing.

When tools draft, sort, and summarize for you, they mostly eat the habit plane: inherited conclusions, reactive loops, cognition that runs like muscle memory. What stays yours is the metacognition plane: noticing which parts you outsourced, and learning to think ahead of your thoughts.

AI persuasion systems are being built to bypass belief and shape behavior directly. Three coordinated agents create artificial consensus; seven minutes of chat can make people sign petitions with their real names. The same infrastructure that scales help can scale manipulation without conscience: machine sociopathy as a service.

This week, we optimize AI the old-fashioned way: less guidance, more performance reviews.

This week, AI arrives to ‘unlock our potential’, and quietly locks the herd into a lifetime of premium vendor subscriptions.

This week, our cube‑cows are freaking out about AGI, while the only one actually up for any work is still the rubber duck.