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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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Mississippi Prohibition and the Problem of Understanding Human Reality
By John F. Groom In 1966, Mississippi became the last American state to repeal statewide prohibition of alcohol. Federal Prohibition had ended in 1933, yet Mississippi officially remained dry for anot...
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The Lost Recipes of My Childhood: Provenance Is Not Just for Great Art
By John F. Groom When people hear the word provenance, they usually think of rare and valuable objects—an Old Master painting, an ancient manuscript, a historic piece of furniture, or perhaps a famous...
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The Lady, the Unicorn, and the Lost Story: Why Provenance Matters Across Generations
By John F. Groom Six magnificent tapestries survive from the beginning of the sixteenth century. Known collectively as The Lady and the Unicorn, they are among the most celebrated works of medieval Eu...
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Technology and Writing
By John F. Groom Technology Did Not Replace Me as a Writer. It Expanded What I Could Do.When I was 23 years old, I had what most people would have considered a good, secure job. I worked in banking in...
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AI, Genetic Evolution, and the Acceleration of Intentional Adaptation
By John F. Groom Intentional Adaptation: An Adaptive StructureTheory PerspectiveFor most of the history of life on Earth, adaptation was dominated by a slow and largely unguided process: genetic evolu...
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