As the U.S. rolls out an AI Action Plan [1] , an important first step in recognizing AI as a national capability with direct implications for workforce development and education, prominent voices across the AI spectrum are debating the risks of “Superintelligence”. Some, like the Future of Life Institute ,   argue for strong limits or prohibitions [2] . Others push back against those constraints. Regardless of that debate, the conversation once again frames AI as the sole obj

Thank you for your continued support. May 2026 be filled with exciting opportunities and accomplishments. From Dr. Russell Fitzpatrick and the haveLAB team.

Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. Your AI Output Is Useless Until You Do This If you’ve been using ChatGPT for any length of time, you’ve probably had this experience: You ask a question. You get a beautifully written answer. You nod in approval… and then mo

Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. Everyone’s Hiring AI Engineers. But Who’s Preparing the Humans? A recent Business Insider  article (“The hottest tech job candidates in America”) reported that the most in-demand job candidates in America right now are AI en

Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. MIT Says 95% of AI Investments Fail to Deliver ROI. Here’s What They Missed This summer, MIT’s NANDA Initiative released a new report, The GenAI Divide: State of AI in Business 2025.  Its headline finding is hard to ignore:

Happy Holidays. I hope this season gives you time to rest, reset, and reconnect. This December, I’m preparing some big things for the year ahead. In the spirit of reflection, here is a popular piece from earlier this year that many readers found valuable. L&D Is the R&D of Human Potential… and AI Is the Catalyst Somewhere along the way, Learning and Development got lost. It began as a strategic business function, a mechanism for growing the human capacity behind innovation, p

AI has not only not solved the problem of cognitive overload, it has also increased it. Leaders are working harder than ever, and AI has done little to reduce stress or improve decision quality. Contrary to the popular complaint, the issue is not with AI. It is the way we are using it. When AI is treated as a tool for tasks, nothing changes beyond it being a cool new novelty. However, when AI becomes a thinking partner, with continuity and shared context, human cognition (or

Build your AI Second Brain and stop drowning in information. In this short video, Dr. Russell Fitzpatrick shows you how our  Primer Session helps you organize your work, decisions, and ideas using AI in a practical, non-hypey way. Watch the video, then grab your spot in the Primer.

The other day a client asked me how I would design a “Job Architecture” that includes AI-enabled tools. Traditionally, job architecture operates on job descriptions, pay grades, titles, and roles. It gives structure, but not growth. It tells people where they sit on the org chart. Employees start to see their career as “my job at ACME”, not “my career journey at ACME”.  Instead of traditional job architecture, it’s time for Human Potential Architecture (HPA) . What Human Pote

Most organizations treat L&D like a content delivery problem. But the real challenge isn't what people learn -  it's how quickly learning translates into performance. When business conditions shift by the quarter, traditional L&D takes too long.  Every organization runs on reactions where information becomes understanding, understanding becomes behavior, and behavior becomes performance. That chemistry of learning is what modern L&D strives to create by combining people, skil

Somewhere along the way, Learning and Development got lost. It began as a strategic business function, a mechanism for growing the human capacity behind innovation, product development, and organizational growth. It was the function that turned people into the engines of progress. As companies expanded and structures formalized, L&D naturally became part of HR, the function responsible for people, culture, and compliance. But over time, L&D’s work became defined by programs a

A dangerous question is now starting to hit the airwaves: Is AI making us stupid? This weekend, a story in the   Guardian   by Sophie McBain commented on a recent report by MIT that suggested that AI is making us cognitively weaker, potentially creating what one expert calls a "stupidogenic society." The MIT study which involved 54 participants and has not yet been peer-reviewed, found that people using ChatGPT to write essays displayed significantly reduced brain activity an

The biggest shift needed in the AI era isn’t learning to use the technology. It’s learning to change how we think. That skill will determine who thrives as AI becomes embedded in everything we do. haveLAB’s  Second Brain collaboration approach exists to teach exactly that: how to collaborate with AI to transform your thinking, not just your workflow. When you use AI as a collaborator on a regular basis, your brain rewires and expands. You see patterns you couldn’t see before.

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