Writing and Publications
This site features essays, notes, and longer-form writing that reflect ongoing inquiry and synthesis across learning, leadership, and workforce development. These writings contribute to public discourse on human cognitive advancement in AI-augmented environments.
Cognitive AI: A Theoretical Framework for Intentional Neuroplasticity and Expanded Cognition in Human–Machine Interaction (2025)
This paper introduces Cognitive AI, a theoretical framework positioning generative AI systems as catalysts for intentional neuroplasticity and cognitive development in adults. Most current research frames AI through lenses of automation, productivity, safety, and control. This work argues for examining AI's developmental potential around how sustained, structured collaboration with intelligent systems can trigger neuroplastic processes in the human brain.
Drawing on research in distributed cognition, the extended mind thesis, adult development theory, and neuroscience, the paper proposes that when humans engage AI as a collaborative cognitive partner rather than a task-completion tool, iterative cycles of inquiry, reflection, reframing, and memory externalization can function as developmental catalysts. These interactions introduce cognitive novelty that disrupts established patterns of thought, creating conditions under which intentional neuroplasticity may support expanded cognition.
The paper presents an exploratory implementation through the AI Second Brain program, a structured protocol demonstrating how participants can build personalized cognitive extensions that support metacognitive awareness and sustained cognitive development.
This work reframes human-AI interaction as a context in which human cognitive capacity itself can be deliberately reshaped over time, positioning Cognitive AI as a foundation for examining how collaborative intelligence supports human evolution in increasingly complex environments.
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The Future of Leadership
This book examines how leaders can evolve beyond traditional models of hierarchical control and emotional intelligence to meet the cognitive demands of the AI era. Drawing on neuroscience research, adult development theory, and distributed cognition frameworks, it introduces the concept of perceptive cognition, an expansion of awareness that allows leaders to engage AI as a thinking partner rather than merely a productivity tool.
The book traces the evolution of leadership across three eras: hierarchical leadership (command and control), relational leadership (emotional intelligence), and synergistic leadership (human-AI collaboration). It explores how sustained interaction with AI can engage intentional neuroplasticity, supporting cognitive development through what the author calls neurotransformation, the deliberate rewiring of thought patterns to expand perception and enhance leadership capacity.
Written for leaders navigating complexity in intelligence-rich environments, the book provides both conceptual frameworks and practical approaches to the five core functions of leadership: setting vision and goals, leading people and teams, decision-making, navigating uncertainty, and driving execution.
Leadership is an Extension of Identity
Before you can elevate others, you must first evolve your own operating system—how you think, perceive, and respond to the world around you.
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The MOST Approach: Using Your Mind to Upgrade Your Brain is a foundational guide by Dr. Russell Fitzpatrick that introduces the science of personal transformation through neuroplasticity, metacognition, and conscious self-direction.
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This book isn’t about leadership tactics—it’s about becoming the kind of person who can lead in today’s complex, AI-driven world.
