The Executive Intelligence Papers · Essay 02
Context Blindness: The Most Expensive Problem in Executive Work
Context blindness costs more than meeting overload, app switching, or AI fatigue. Those are symptoms. This essay names the cause and explains why fixing the symptoms has never worked.
This essay comes Aug 2026. The argument is below. The full essay arrives on that date.
The standard diagnosis of executive overwhelm is wrong. Too many meetings, too much email, too many tools: these are real. They are not the problem. They are downstream of a problem that has no name in most organizations.
The problem is context blindness. The accumulated cost of work the leader set in motion and no system owns. The commitment that drifted because nothing was watching for it. The decision revisited because the reasoning behind the original call no longer survived. The meeting that started with the leader catching up instead of leading.
This essay names the cause, not the symptoms. It argues that no existing category of software is responsible for fixing it. And it closes with the category that is.
The full essay comes in August 2026.