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The Substack is the active home for new writing; the Medium archive holds earlier work. Together they hold five years of public thinking on AI, meaning, organizational change, and what it takes for institutions to act with care.
What Time Binds
What the logo means.
The blue curve is the speed of change: AI tools, new policies, shifting language, all arriving faster than the systems they enter can absorb. The amber line is the pace at which people, teams, and institutions actually take in new meaning. The space between them is the gap. The work of the practice, and the work of every essay published at What Time Binds, is to keep that gap from becoming the place where shared meaning breaks down.
"Meaning under pressure" is the through-line. Written for leaders, educators, and operators who are doing serious work in moments of fast change.
2025
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Meaning Repair course
Active series on the publication
- Meaning Repair for High-Stakes Teams. A 10-module course built on the working framework. Module 1 is free; subsequent modules release to paid subscribers.
- What Do You Mean? A serialized field guide to magnet words: terms that pull teams into different meanings without anyone noticing.
- Pinned Terms. A weekly comic strip that turns the framework into one teachable scene per week.
- The working framework essays. Drift, Suppression, Repair Activation, and the propositions that make up the meaning repair model.
Earlier writing
Books
Long-form work.
Published and forthcoming books on AI, professionalism, and adulthood as a civic capacity.
Simulated Realities: Generative AI and the Remanufacture of Professionalism
An examination of how generative AI is reshaping what counts as professional competence, and what that shift demands from individuals and institutions.
Adulthood of Humanity
A working book project on what it takes for societies, and the institutions inside them, to develop the capacity to act like adults at scale.
Working papers
Research and preprints.
Six papers posted on SSRN, with two more in development. The arc starts with the 2023 doctoral dissertation, which closed with a formal recommendation that researchers investigate generative AI's impact on media literacy practice. The papers since then trace that question across education, ethics, governance, and team coordination. Combined downloads currently exceed 6,300.
Meaning Repair as Cognitive Infrastructure for High-Stakes Teams
A scoping review and integrative framework. 53 pages. Synthesizes 131 sources across eight disciplines into ten testable propositions. Currently being prepared for submission to Organizational Dynamics.
The State of Democracy: A Factual and Analytical Review of Global Trends and Tipping Points
Examines current global democratic trends, identifies inflection points, and analyzes the structural conditions that move democratic systems toward consolidation or decline.
Technological Stewardship: Reframing Ethics, Perception, and Culture in Technology Design and Governance
Co-authored with Tony Washington. Presented at the University of Oxford Research Ethics Colloquium 2025. Reframes technology ethics as a stewardship problem through three pillars: embodied fit, ethical governance, and sociotechnical justice.
AI and Philosophy: Exploring the Complex Relationship between Worldviews and Technology Development
A framework for understanding how different philosophical commitments shape AI design, deployment, and policy decisions. The five-lens model from this paper anchors current talks and workshops.
Combating Misinformation and Fake News: The Potential of AI and Media Literacy Education
Posted weeks after the dissertation defense. Answers the dissertation's formal call for research into how generative AI shapes media literacy practice. 2,285 downloads to date.
The Impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence on Writer's Self-Efficacy: A Critical Literature Review
An 86-page critical review of how generative AI affects writer confidence, skill development, and identity. Most cited of the working papers, with 23 citations and 3,400+ downloads.
AI Readiness in Workforce Development Systems: A Practitioner Framework
Buyer-facing companion paper to the scoping review. Targets workforce boards, community colleges, and education-affiliated nonprofits.
Worldview Lenses and AI PD Design in K–12 Education
Companion paper to the April 30 Spark AI Lab roundtable talk. Practical framework for K–12 leaders designing AI professional development.
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