Toby, Dan, and Chmiel interrogate the quiet crisis hiding inside the AI boom: we’re offloading too much thinking and calling it strategy. This episode explores what gets lost when cognitive offloading becomes the norm, and why the future of leadership may depend on friction, not flow.

Details in the Show

• Why “upstream of strategy” isn’t just a catchphrase—it’s a call to rethink how we think
• Cognitive offloading, groupthink, and the invisible atrophy of over-automated ideas
• What AI can't replicate: disagreement, unpredictability, and taste
• Why trust, vulnerability, and gut-checks still outperform generative polish
• The difference between provocation and prompting—and why AI doesn’t know the difference
• How “the weak ties” in your network might be your sharpest strategic inputs
• The real value of feeling dumb: learning, not performance, is the point

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About ON_Discourse

ON_Discourse is a private community of C-suite leaders, investors, and innovators who come together to challenge assumptions, sharpen ideas, and drive transformation through discourse. 

As an experiment in modern discourse, the show’s hosts co-founders, Toby Daniels, Dan Gardner, and Head of Discourse, Matt Chmiel, explore how emerging technologies, such as AI are reshaping business, creativity, and culture, grounded in the real-world experiences that emerge from our community’s private Group Chats.

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