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Insights & perspectives

Shaping the future of work and competence as a system.

Through articles, analyses, and metacognitive reflections, Erigo explores competence as a structural driver for organizations and society. The texts span from practical insights to systemic perspectives, creating a space where knowledge becomes both measurable and meaningful.

The Unreadable

The Unreadable

On emotion recognition and the conditions of inner life

Paul Ekman was convinced. Six basic emotions expressed the same way by all humans, everywhere. Happiness, sadness, fear, disgust, anger, surprise. A universal language written in the muscles of the face.
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From Cut-and-Paste to Prompt-and-Paste

From Cut-and-Paste to Prompt-and-Paste

The evolution of cognitive fragmentation

Cut-and-paste began as a physical editing technique. Writers and editors literally cut text with scissors and rearranged it with glue. This required reading, understanding, and deliberate reorganization of ideas.
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Human Syntax

Human Syntax

When machines rewrite the grammar of thought

In When Probability Speaks, I explored how truth and language intertwine when probability begins to define meaning. This article continues that exploration, focusing on how our ways of writing and thinking are being reshaped by the systems we use.
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When Probability Speaks

When Probability Speaks

On truth, language, and what happens when AI shapes our understanding

Truth today is weighted by probability. It affects how we interpret the world, and how we sound when we try to describe it.
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When our thinking moves into language models

When our thinking moves into language models

700 million people. 2.5 billion daily messages. 29,000 prompts per second. This is how ChatGPT is being used in September 2025, according to the new NBER report How People Use ChatGPT.
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AI and the skills gap

AI and the skills gap

When junior roles disappear and the future weakens

AI tools accelerate. They generate code, draft analyses, and deliver proposals in milliseconds. On the surface, this looks like a win: faster processes, lower costs, higher efficiency.
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AI and quality

AI and quality

from micro level to systemic risk

More reports are now emerging as AI has been part of working life for some time. The first aggregated data shows that the technology can increase efficiency, but quality does not always follow. In some cases, we even see declines.
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Bias in AI

Bias in AI

Weightings that shape our worldview

We are galloping in step with technology. Fascination carries us forward. But there are questions we rarely pause to consider. Bias in AI is often discussed as a technical problem — something that can be adjusted, coded away, fine-tuned. But bias is not just about data. It is about which interpretations are given priority. Which worldview is reinforced. Which values are amplified, and which are cut away.
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Synthetic safety and AI

Synthetic safety and AI

When confirmation replaces inquiry

Generative AI gives us answers quickly, politely, and often with a high degree of familiarity. But what happens when our brain interprets this as confirmation, and when confirmation begins to replace inquiry? As more people turn to AI instead of human dialogue, the conditions for how we train empathy, develop judgment, and build knowledge are changing. The sense of safety that emerges is not necessarily wrong, but it is synthetic.
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