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The COBOL Problem
Two official libraries claimed to hold the same project history. They did not agree. Queries stacked up, and people started copying titles out by hand. Databases hold information. They do not pass it on. The COBOL Problem names the missing curator between the contributor and the record.
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Metabolism Management
An approved AI search tool started surfacing wrong answers in federal bid work from unvalidated internal documents. The risk was not the model. It was the missing meter for what the tool could absorb. Score your Metabolism Management with five questions before the next approval.
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The Builder Journey
Every session that lives only in the chat window resets your compound interest to zero. I paid the Re-Explanation Tax until I moved drafting guardrails into a skill on disk. Six words later, the agent loaded Durable Intent and shipped a clean first turn.
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The Framework
Madam I’m Adam is built around a connected set of concepts for thinking about AI and organizational learning. Here are a few worth knowing.
| Organizational Metabolism | The rhythm at which an institution can absorb external change and integrate it into lasting behavior. |
| Cognitive Debt | The liability that accumulates when teams adopt new tools and workflows faster than they can actually master them. |
| Speed Inflation | What happens when AI compresses work to machine tempo while organizational hierarchies remain at human tempo — decisions happen before understanding does. |
About Adam
I’m a digital strategy executive and the writer behind Madam I’m Adam. As Director of Thought Leadership and Strategic Insights at Maximus, I translate complex AI and technology capabilities into clear positioning for federal clients, executive stakeholders, and lawmakers. Before Maximus: Director of Product Marketing at Fluence Energy, VP roles at ADEC Innovations and ICF International, and a decade at ThoughtWorks scaling a global consultancy from 800 to 3,500 people.