Founded and sold an HR tech company (Cognology). Will happily talk onboarding at parties. Always building something with AI.
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Humans and AI seem to share this quirk.
It’s called the adjacent possible. It’s where a step opens options you couldn’t see before.
If you build and constantly improve, partly with your own ideas and partly with AI’s suggestions, you’ll likely have experienced the AI suggesting something that makes a big improvement.
You wonder why it wasn’t just built that way in the first place.
For humans, a door often needs to be opened to see something else that was possible. For AI, it might simply be that the additional context helps. Either way, it looks like the same quirk.
“The adjacent possible” is the complexity scientist Stuart Kauffman’s term. Steven Johnson, who wrote about it in Where Good Ideas Come From, credits him on his newsletter’s About page.
adjacentpossible.substack.co…
Using @todoist with Claude? Give it a rule to put a link back to the chat at the top of each task it adds.
Later, one click and I’m back in that chat.
In my setup the desktop app gives Claude the link. In a browser, Claude can’t read it, so paste it in yourself.
How to connect Todoist to Claude or another AI assistant, from Todoist’s help page: todoist.com/help/todoist/tod…
Old HR tech was about easier and faster.
New HR tech is also about making people processes better.
Of course, it's AI enabling this. Which is somewhat ironic.
And that's not to say, every AI feature being added makes the people side more effective. But it's good to see.
SHRM, the US HR association, says 75% of HR people using AI reported better quality work, at least a little.
Source: SHRM, 5 August 2026. shrm.org/topics-tools/news/a…
That's not a survey about HR tech, but HR people say AI is improving their work.