The Racing Yacht
Steve Jobs once called the computer a “bicycle for the mind"—a simple machine that multiplied individual effort. It fit an era where progress was measured by mechanical extension: muscle into motion, thought into reach. You pedalled; the world obeyed.
The Amplifying Mirror
AI is not here to replace you. It is here to augment you—sharper, faster, more visible. The leaders who learn to partner with this amplifying mirror will turn fleeting signals into trust, clarity, and compounded value.
More Than a Mirror
Many people say AI is lacking — they call it generic slop, unusable, or complain about the loss of human influence. The uncomfortable truth: most of the time, that’s not an AI problem. It’s a you-problem. Bring vague questions and thin knowledge, and AI will upscale your vagueness. Bring rigour, and it compounds. Missed expectations come from asking it to be something it isn’t — a crystal ball, a shortcut, a replacement for thinking — instead of seeing it for what it is: a partner can help sharpen whatever you bring to it. Misunderstandings like these don’t happen because people are foolish. They happen because the paradigm is still new — and until we learn to name the gap between perception and reality, we’ll keep tripping over it.
Embodied Assessment
Embodied assessment is an augmented form of thinking. It is not the only one, but it is the one we explore here—through a practice we discovered inside NVIDIA. Most organisations evaluate performance the way archaeologists study ancient ruins: by sifting through remnants. Dashboards, quarterly reviews, after-action reports. But by the time a pattern is legible, it is often inert. The question isn’t what happened. It’s what wants to happen next.
Augmentation Is the Strategy
The Luminous Distinction
The real value of AI isn’t speed. It’s altitude.
Human-centred augmentation is the scaffolding that allows people to think broader, act deeper, and reach decisively toward what once felt out of reach. It lifts teams into the rarefied air of novel, valuable thought—the kind that translates directly into advantage: sharper moves, faster uptake, clearer pathways to ROI. In this altitude, competitive advantage is no longer theoretical; it becomes immediate, visible, and bankable—a human edge you can measure, not just imagine.
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