Leadership as a verb

Who are you without the title?

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

Published on Leadership as a verb • Jun 2

Who benefits from you believing AI will replace you?

You're not losing to AI. You're being sold a frame

Jun 2 • Diamantino Almeida

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May 2026

What most people get wrong about AI agents

The mindset behind AI agents that nobody is talking about.

May 14 • Diamantino Almeida

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What if machines could feel?

What we built that could make us mistreat a feeling thing without noticing

May 12 • Diamantino Almeida

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The 60-90 Day Plan Nobody Gives You When AI Adoption Goes Wide

For the leader who has a handful of teams using AI well and twenty teams wondering when it is their turn.

May 5 • Diamantino Almeida

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April 2026

The hammer and the weapon

AI can be a tool that amplifies human capability. Companies are choosing to make it something else. That choice is not technical. It is political. And…

Apr 21 • Diamantino Almeida

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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