SURFACING WISDOM
SJ King, SURFACING WISDOMNobody teaches this. Not the MBA, not the coach, not the eight hundredth productivity system. How to see what's actually happening, act on it before you're sure, and carry it into rooms where being wrong is expensive.
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Not-Knowing Is a Feature of Wisdom
I was having a conversation with a machine and I caught it being sure of something.
It had told me that experienced operators would outperform their models — that you would get better decisions out of a person than out of the underlying sy...
The Wisdom You Don't Know You Have
I want to tell you about the moment I stopped trusting my analysis and started trusting something harder to name.
It was the third year of a company I had co-founded. We were doing well by every rational measure — revenue growing, team sol...
From Machines to Minds: Why Management Theory Failed You
In 1911, a man with a stopwatch stood over a laborer named Schmidt and taught him how to shovel pig iron.
Frederick Winslow Taylor had measured everything — the optimal weight of a load, the exact angle of the shovel, the precise number of...
You Were Trained for the Pool. Life Is White Water.
Everyone I talk to says some version of the same sentence. There is too much. It moves too fast. I cannot keep up.
The standard explanation is that the world has become more complex, and there is something to that. But I think the diagnosi...
AI Can Tell You What's Likely. Wisdom Tells You What's Worth Doing.
The decision your tools can't make for you
There is something AI cannot do. I want to be precise about what it is, because the usual way of framing this — “AI can’t replace human judgment” — is vague enough to be useless, and the people wh...
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Author of The Inner Compass. Former global tech CEO and university professor. I provide the first systematic methodology for developing wisdom as a learnable skill to manage complexity in the modern world.
Ancient wisdom for modern life’s challenges. By SJ King—former Silicon Valley CEO, university professor, and author of *The Inner Compass*. Exploring timeless principles for living with grace amid complexity.
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