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What Does Signing Up for a Marathon Have to Do with Adaptive Structure Theory?
By John F. Groom At first glance, signing up for a marathon seems like a straightforward transaction. You pay an entry fee, receive a race number, and show up on race day. Most people view the maratho...
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The Hidden Economy of Structure
Why Many of the World's Most Valuable Businesses Aren't Selling What You ThinkBy John F. Groom When people think about valuable businesses, they usually focus on the obvious product. A shoe company se...
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Why Africa May Become One of the World's Most Important Regions for the Future of AI
By John F. Groom For much of artificial intelligence's history, the world has mistaken large datasets for global datasets. The two are not the same. The first generation of AI was trained primarily on...
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The Dental Form Nobody Owns
By John F. Groom I recently visited my local dentist for what should have been one of the simplest appointments imaginable: a routine cleaning.I've been a patient there for seven years. I visit regula...
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Three Masterpieces, Three Provenance Problems: What The Lady and the Unicorn, Michelangelo's Ceiling, and The Lost Painting Teach Us About Preserving Human History
By John F. Groom A great work of art can survive for centuries while the story behind its creation quietly disappears. This distinction is easy to overlook because we naturally associate the survival...
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Focused Thinking Is the Fiber of the AI-Enabled Enterprise
By John F. Groom One of the great paradoxes of the AI era is that as intelligence becomes more abundant, focused thinking may become even more valuable.Artificial intelligence can now produce in secon...
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From the White City to AI Chips to DataUniversa - How the Organization of Complexity Creates Value
By John F. Groom In 1893, Chicago accomplished something that seemed almost impossible.On the shore of Lake Michigan, thousands of workers transformed swampland into what became known as the White Cit...
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Provenance and the Reversibility of Value
By John F. Groom One of the most common misunderstandings about provenance is that it exists primarily to protect things that are already valuable. In reality, history suggests almost the opposite. Pr...
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Building in Parallel: How a Small Company Can Operate Like an AI System
By John F. Groom One of the greatest organizational achievements of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 was not simply the scale of what was built, but the way it was built. The fair was completed becaus...
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Common Sense at 250: Provenance, the American Revolution, and the Fragile Survival of History
By John F. Groom On July 4, 2026, the United States celebrated the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Across the country, Americans reflected on the moment when thirteen colonies fo...
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