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Playing Up “AI Autonomy” Could Encourage Military Gambles
The danger isn't that AI has become autonomous. It's that everyone is being told it has. An excuse arrives before the capability, and it changes who is…
Sep 22
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Hector Sun
The Trip.com Experiment: Did Hybrid Work Really Cut Quits by a Third Without Hurting Performance?
Please stop treating the Trip.com paper in Nature as the universal answer on hybrid work.
Sep 14
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Hector Sun
What 25 Top Mathematicians Are Really Afraid Of: AI Is Collapsing the Talent Pyramid
AI is amplifying today's experts while quietly dismantling the pipeline that produces tomorrow's. The mathematicians noticed first. Every organization…
Sep 13
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Hector Sun
June 2026
Merz Wants a “Plaza Accord” for China. What He Revealed Is an Organizational Disease Many Big Companies Share
A German proposal to hit China with a "Plaza Accord" looks like geopolitics. It's actually a perfect case study in why so many organizations can't act…
Jun 25
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Hector Sun
The “Internal Equity” Argument Is Costing You Your Best Candidates
What a thousand-year-old Song dynasty painting, hanging in a museum in Kansas City, taught me about pay, fairness, and the hires you keep losing.
Jun 9
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Hector Sun
When China’s AI Platforms Go Quiet for the College Entrance Exam: A Textbook Case of Security Theater
Every June, ten million students sit China's highest-stakes exam, in rooms already sealed and signal-jammed. So when AI platforms switch off their…
Jun 7
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Hector Sun
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It Takes Everyone to Succeed, and Only One to Fail
What a defense forum in Singapore reveals about every powerless coordinator — from a hub between great powers to the PMO inside your company.
Jun 2
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Hector Sun
May 2026
From Marathons to HYROX: What Are Executives Performing?
From marathons to HYROX, executives keep performing physical excellence as proof of leadership. The real evidence of leadership can't be posted.
May 31
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Hector Sun
Oscar’s New AI Rules: A Job-Protection Battle That Was Always Going to Fail
On May 1, 2026, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences published its rule updates for the 99th Academy Awards.
May 19
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Hector Sun
What The Devil Wears Prada Tells Us: To Counter Middle-Management Failure, the CEO Must Build in a “Structural Backdoor”
Middle-management failure can't be fixed by replacing people. But it can't be fixed by structure alone either.
May 15
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Hector Sun
Military AI Is Unstoppable. World War III Is Just a Matter of Time.
The May 1 Pentagon contracts didn't just deploy AI. They moved decision authority from humans to algorithms.
May 7
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Hector Sun
What The Devil Wears Prada Tells Us: Commitment Is the Rarest Form of Leadership
Three observable behaviors. One internal core. Why most managers can't replicate Miranda Priestly.
May 6
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Hector Sun
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