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A reckoning with complexity

One hopeful consequence of AI: it may force a reckoning with complexity. When you can generate a convincing argument for almost any position - and against it - the question "what is the right thing to do?" loses its clean answer.
Do you take the flight to close the deal, knowing your company has a net-zero pledge? The carbon is real. So is the relationship that won't form over a Zoom call.
Do you recommend the automation that cuts costs - and three jobs? Efficiency serves the many. Displacement lands on the few.
Do you tell a colleague their leadership style is holding the team back? Honesty serves them. It might also just serve you.
That discomfort - not knowing which side is right - might be the opening we need.
A model of Human Development - Spiral Dynamics - calls this Stage Yellow: the ability to hold multiple valid frameworks at once and still make a call. Not that all answers are equal, but that all frameworks/models are contextual and should be held loosely, functionally.

First posted on LinkedIn, 22 April 2026 — reproduced here as written