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The Severance Problem: Why Employees Won't Adopt AI (And How to Fix It)


Fresh off its Emmy wins, Apple TV's Severance isn't just great television—it's a perfect illustration of the psychological reason AI adoption can fail. In our Big Picture Essay, we'll unpack why people don't take the risks that new technology requires when they have no control over their work. We've also got some of my best posts in case you missed them, AI's economic index, lessons learned from a year of building agentic AI, and a prompt to write a better company overview in your job...
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