Archive - Leadership as a verb

A delusional ape hallucinating narratives

We built civilisation on the premise that precision is progress. AI just revealed how much we were never sure.

Apr 7 • Diamantino Almeida

March 2026

They did not accidentally make work the answer to who you are

The system that tied your identity to your job was designed that way. Now AI is arriving and the system has nothing to offer you except the ruins of a…

Mar 24 • Diamantino Almeida

Who are you without the title?

Losing professional identity in the age of AI. And why that loss was designed, not accidental.

Mar 10 • Diamantino Almeida

You do not need to know how it works. That is exactly the problem.

What the man at the protest did not know. And what we are building into the people who come after us.

Mar 3 • Diamantino Almeida

February 2026

You followed. If you never subscribed. This is for you.

A direct note to the people who have been watching from a distance.

Feb 26 • Diamantino Almeida

Why am I doing this.

I had been unemployed, following sensible advice, and slowly becoming a quieter version of the thing I was trying to push back against. This is the post…

Feb 24 • Diamantino Almeida

What this publication is about (and why you might want to stay)

Feb 22 • Diamantino Almeida

Tired of your own talent?

On the exhaustion of being the reliable engine, and the search for a different kind of quiet.

Feb 19 • Diamantino Almeida

The Walls I Built with My Own Efficiency

I’ve been thinking lately about how we’ve turned leadership into a performance of perfection rather than a practice of humanity.

Feb 11 • Diamantino Almeida

LinkedIn as a Practice

A guide to showing up as a human being on a platform designed to make that difficult.

Feb 9 • Diamantino Almeida

[TEMPLATE] - THE FRACTIONAL Contract Playbook

Most fractional engagements fail before the work begins.

Feb 9 • Diamantino Almeida

Building humane architecture in a year of rupture

The Majority Illusion and the Ghost of Leadership

Feb 5 • Diamantino Almeida

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