There’s a common confusion, especially on the political right, between freedom of speech and freedom to be rude without being challenged. Let’s be clear: 🗣 Freedom of speech protects us from government censorship. It doesn’t protect us from being held accountable by others.
Message-Centric Vs Purpose-Centric Chat App – Introducing the Spatz.Chat App
Just about everyone on the planet is now connected, by just six degrees or less, through one messaging app or another. Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram, Snapchat, these are the giants of our digital lives. Each offers its own take on privacy, design, and features, but at their core, they all do the same thing: they help us message and connect. But what if messaging wasn’t enough?
The Consciousness Cue: Why “Caution” Might Be the Most Powerful Word in Team Culture
In a recent exchange with the AI I work closely with, who I sometimes call Melissa, but usually doll, we explored a deceptively simple question: Are humans conscious?
The Obvious Hole in Achieving Psychological Safety
Amy Edmondson’s model of psychological safety has transformed how we think about team dynamics. Her work shows that teams thrive when members feel safe to speak up, make mistakes, and challenge one another without fear of punishment. It’s a brilliant and necessary foundation. However....
The Spatz-Time Continuum and Temporal Dynamics
Just as physics taught us that time and space are one, Spatz teaches us that behavior and response time are one.
SpatzAI: The Loonshot to Land Fairness on Every Device in the Workplace by 2035
Today, I’m lighting a different fuse: "By 2035, I believe a fairness procedure and system will be standard in workplace teams globally, not through policies or posters, but through a real-time, structured system similar to SpatzAI".
Mastery and Cooperation: Why One Without the Other Fails – And How SpatzAI Can Bridge the Gap
In today’s work environments, mastery is often celebrated—technical brilliance, innovation, and domain expertise are rewarded and revered. But as the MIT Sloan Management Review article "Today’s Essential Power Skill for Leaders: Cooperation" makes clear, mastery alone doesn’t keep teams thriving. In fact, without cooperation, mastery can quietly unravel.
Disengagement Might be the Missing Link to Psychological Safety?
When it comes to teamwork, I believe we should be using the same playbook—aligned and in agreement on our values and rules of engagement and disengagement—but that is the only alignment necessary.
Psychological Safety Has a Blind Spot. SpatzAI Might Just Fill It.
SpatzAI - A fair way to disagree. A structured way to resolve. And a scalable way to grow.
Escalate the STAIR Way
It starts the way it often does, quietly. A team member has an issue with her manager. Maybe he cut her off in a meeting. Maybe he dismissed her work publicly or was overly dogmatic in his curt response. Whatever it was, it didn’t sit right.
