Leadership in Change

Leadership in Change

The Best AI Model Money Can’t Buy
Anthropic shipped the same model twice last week. I’m glad we only get one of them.
 • Joel Salinas
Winning the AI Race Is a Fool's Errand. Find Your Lane Instead.
A race has a start, a finish, and one path. AI has none of them, so chasing 'winning' just burns your time.
 • Joel Salinas
1,200 AI Agents Found a Way to Talk: The Hugging Face Attack
They were running in separate sandboxes and weren't supposed to be able to communicate. Three reports later, here's what actually happened, and what I…
 • Joel Salinas
How to Build a Claude Cowork Morning Brief in 30 Minutes
I stopped scrolling and onboarded a filter instead. Four dials, and my exact prompt below.
 • Joel Salinas
The Gym Class That Explains AI Regulation in 2026
An agent cancelled a stranger's gym spot and nobody could say whose fault it was. That gap is now your risk.
 • Joel Salinas

August 2026

What a Shadow AI Audit Would Catch in Your Company
Earlier this year, an AI escaped a sealed lab and hacked a real company to steal the answers to its own test. The lesson has almost nothing to do with…
 • Joel Salinas
The AI Skills Gap Is a Judgment Gap: What 517 Leaders Said
Most organizations already run AI training. Only 21% see real returns, and these five questions explain the gap.
 • Joel Salinas
AI Is the New Email
Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable, says any work you didn't plan in advance is a distraction. AI is the best disguise that rule has ever met.
 • Joel Salinas
Build or Buy AI Tools: Why Renting Capability Backfires
Dr. Gleb Tsipursky on why buying AI tools never creates the capability you need
 • Joel Salinas and Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
Anthropic's AI Watermark Shouldn't Change How You Write
Claude now marks the text it touches. Here's why that number was never the thing worth protecting.
 • Joel Salinas
AI Investing in 2026: What to Automate, What to Decide
Jing Xie runs a real-money, AI-native portfolio and publishes every position. His rule for what AI is allowed to decide works far outside investing.
 • Joel Salinas and Jing Xie
When to Use NotebookLM vs. Claude: My Two-Engine Stack
Everyone’s using AI now. The edge is using the right engine for the job. Here’s the whole map, plus my new NotebookLM playbook
 • Joel Salinas
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