THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL INTEGRATIONREV 2026.06
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Essays & notesThe Writing
The thesis, argued in public. Working papers on AI adoption and the discipline of integration — abstracts first, because that's how busy people read.
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On Artificial Integration: Why the Hardest Part of AI Isn't the AI
The phrase landed at my kitchen table: artificial integration, not artificial intelligence. The discipline of designing workflows where AI reduces cognitive friction instead of adding to it — the variable separating the AI rollouts that work from the ones quietly walked back in eighteen months.
Artificial Integration
Everyone's talking about Artificial Intelligence. I keep getting stuck on a different word: integration. After a career making complex systems disappear, the real question isn't how powerful AI is — it's how we bring it into our work and our lives without losing what makes us us.