News Summary

• AI gives instant answers with almost no effort needed.
• But over time, it risks wearing down the skills a business needs to keep coming up with new ideas.
• We call this the "productivity trap": you get faster in the short run, but slowly lose the ability to think for yourself.
• A better approach is what we call "strategic friction": a small, deliberate step you add between an employee and an AI generated answer.
• It's about making sure that before someone benefits from a ready-made AI answer, they've spent enough time on the problem to actually understand it.