In 2025, less than half (48%) of U.S. employees said they trusted their senior leaders, and 40% reported distrust of their leaders and colleagues, signaling a broad erosion of workplace trust.And when you add AI to the mix, things aren’t looking good. In a 2025 YouGov survey, only 5% of Americans say they trust AI. Meanwhile, in late 2025, McKinsey found that 78% of U.S. companies report using AI in at least one business function (up from 55% just a year earlier). Put simply, we’re in an AI-accelerated trust recession. BUILDING VULNERABILITY-BASED TRUST Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, shares that vulnerability-based…
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For years, companies have assumed that their digital relationship with customers would happen in a place they controlled: their website, their app, their checkout flow, their interface, their carefully optimized funnel. That assumption shaped an enormous amount of corporate behavior. Brands invested fortunes in design systems, SEO, conversion optimization, customer journeys, and digital experiences because the screen was where persuasion happened and where transactions were completed. That assumption is starting to break. The next wave of AI is not just about answering questions better. It is about acting. OpenAI’s Operator is designed to go to the web and perform tasks…
For most of modern financial history, retail investors were treated as background noise. Institutions moved the market. Hedge funds set the tone. Analysts shaped narratives. Individual investors followed. That era is over. Retail investors made up 35% of the market in April 2025, an all-time high. According to a 2024 report, almost 80% of the market is high-frequency algorithmic trading. Combine these numbers, and it is theoretically possible that all of the market could be trading a popular stock on social media that gets quickly amplified upwards by momentum trading algorithms. This is not a trend. It is a structural…
This is a scene from the new Netflix show “The Sandman.” It depicts the Pope kissing a priest. Here are the names of the executive producer and directors: Neil GaimanDavid S. GoyerAllan HeinbergSamuel KiethMike Dringenberg pic.twitter.com/W9NqwrSx1H — Red Pill Media (@RedPillMediaX) April 6, 2026 Christianity represents one of the last pillars of resistance to centralized authority. Christianity has become the only religion that can be openly mocked and ridiculed in mainstream culture without consequence, and anyone who refuses to see that pattern is simply ignoring reality. There is no equal treatment here, and the idea that this is about “creative…
In 2025, companies directly attributed 55,000 job cuts to artificial intelligence—more than 12 times the figure from just two years earlier. In 2026, the pace has only accelerated. Block eliminated 4,000 roles in a single announcement. Amazon cut 16,000 corporate positions. Meta, Atlassian, Pinterest . . . the list grows weekly. If you haven’t been affected yet, someone you know has. And whether driven by AI, a merger, a restructuring, or a strategic pivot, layoffs are no longer exceptional events. They’re a recurring feature of working life. Most layoff advice focuses on the mechanics: Update your résumé, optimize your LinkedIn…
Russia is doing the opposite of many other central banks by selling gold, yet this behavior actually reinforces the fundamental role gold plays within the global financial system because it demonstrates that gold is the ultimate asset of last resort when access to traditional financial channels is restricted. Since 2025, the Central Bank of Russia has been liquidating portions of its gold reserves to finance ongoing war expenditures, raising approximately $2.4 billion and reducing its holdings to a multi-year low, while simultaneously remaining largely cut off from Western capital markets due to sanctions. This is not a signal that…
In the first 24 hours of the war with Iran, the United States struck a thousand targets. By the end of the week, the total exceeded 3,000—twice as many as in the “shock and awe” phase of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to Pete Hegseth. This unprecedented number of strikes was made possible by artificial intelligence. The U.S. Central Command (Centcom) insists that humans remain in the loop on every targeting decision, and that the AI is there to help them to make “smarter decisions faster.” But exactly what role humans can play when the systems are operating at…
The Bank of France has just completed a major restructuring of its gold reserves, selling 129 tonnes of gold previously stored at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and replacing it with newly refined, internationally compliant bullion now held entirely within its vaults in Paris. This operation represented roughly 5% of France’s total gold reserves and was not a reduction in holdings but a transformation in form and location. By taking advantage of the surge in gold prices, the central bank realized a capital gain of approximately €13 billion, reversing a €7.7 billion loss in 2024 into a reported…
After years of working with clients across various industries at Dreamix, certain patterns repeat. Not the technical work—that varies enormously—but in the conversations that happen before the work begins. The assumptions clients bring into a vendor selection process often shape the outcome more than the technology choices that follow. Three of those assumptions are worth questioning before signing anything. 1. Don’t design the team before scoping the problem. A client arrives with a fixed requirement for five senior engineers, a specific tech stack, and product availability by a certain date. The project scope comes later. I understand their reasoning. Senior…
One need not be a sadist to enjoy the deeply unflattering body cam footage of Tiger Woods’ recent drunk driving arrest. Even before factoring in anyone’s personal feelings about the peerlessly accomplished but past-his-prime athlete, or their feelings about drunk drivers in general, the photos are internet-gold that lend themselves easily to memes and jokes. Still, there’s an unsavory aftertaste to this schadenfreude fiesta. It’s the same gamey flavor baked into the release last month of body cam footage from Justin Timberlake’s 2024 arrest, also for drunk driving. While there may be a cheap dopamine hit in watching famous people…