Profile 9 min read

Lessons from Mario Harik

Mario Harik oversees 40,000 employees as the CEO of XPO, one of the world's largest logistics providers. He originally joined in 2011 as the company's first Chief Information Officer, advancing by bringing software engineering and strict operational discipline to the trucking industry.
Research Explainers 8 min read

Silent Expert Systems Can Teach Models to Reason

LeAct turns the actions of solvers, planners, and controllers into reasoning data by keeping only explanations that help a model recover the expert decision.
Research Explainers 9 min read

AI Can Drain the Expert Pipeline Before Anyone Notices

AI may boost today's output while eroding the junior work that creates tomorrow's experts. Nolan Lovett explains the profession-wide coordination risk.
Profile 6 min read

Lessons from Wade Davis

Anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis has spent his career documenting indigenous cultures and the natural world. He is best known for the concept of the ethnosphere, arguing that human cultural diversity is just as fragile and important as biological diversity.
Profile 8 min read

Lessons from Maxim Bar Kogan

As CEO of Onyx Security, Maxim Bar Kogan is building infrastructure to govern autonomous AI agents in the enterprise. Drawing on his background in military intelligence and offensive cyber operations, he argues that traditional security tools fail against unpredictable AI systems.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Hilary Allen

American University law professor Hilary Allen studies the intersection of new technology and financial regulation. She coined "driverless finance" to describe how automated algorithms and cryptoassets threaten traditional banking stability.
Profile 4 min read

Lessons from Amit Agarwal

Amit Agarwal helped scale Datadog from its early stages into a major public software company as its Chief Product Officer and President.
Profile 7 min read

Lessons from Reynold Xin

Reynold Xin co created Apache Spark and co founded Databricks. He went from writing distributed systems code at UC Berkeley to designing databases for a world where AI agents write most queries.

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