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Field Notes · L&D × AI

Insights on the future of learning.

Data-driven essays on learning analytics, AI-native instruction, skills strategy, and the operating model rewiring the modern L&D function — written from the build floor, not the sidelines.

9 essays live · more in the works
Learning Analytics

The Measurement Gap: Why 95% of L&D Still Can't Prove Its Worth

The corporate learning market hit $375 billion, yet two in three L&D leaders can't demonstrate impact to their executives. The problem was never effort. It's instrumentation.

11 min May 28, 2026
Learning Ecosystems

Learning in the Flow of Work: Moments, Not Modules

The LMS-vs-LXP debate is over. 2026 belongs to integrated ecosystems that deliver learning inside Slack, Teams, and the actual job — built for moments, not modules.

9 min May 14, 2026
AI in Learning

The Adaptive Engine: Agentic AI and the End of One-Size-Fits-All

By 2026, 40% of enterprise apps will run task-specific AI agents — up from under 5%. In learning, that means a tutor that intervenes the moment you struggle, not the week after.

12 min Apr 30, 2026
Skills Strategy

The Skills Operating System: Why Your Taxonomy Is the Bottleneck

Only 7% of organizations intend to build a common skills taxonomy — yet it's the prerequisite for nearly every upskilling decision. The whole strategy is missing its foundation.

11 min Apr 16, 2026
Learning Science

The Neuroscience of Retention: Engineering Against the Forgetting Curve

Employees forget 90% of training within a week. Most L&D fights biology with longer courses. The science says do the exact opposite — and the data on spaced repetition is overwhelming.

10 min Apr 2, 2026
L&D Strategy

The New L&D Operating Model: From Content Factory to Performance Engine

When AI can generate the course in minutes, the job stops being content creation. 2026's L&D leader is a performance consultant running a learning-led growth engine.

10 min Mar 19, 2026
Performance

The Onboarding Velocity Problem

How long until a new hire is genuinely productive — and what it costs you every day they're not. A systems approach to compressing time-to-competency.

10 min Jun 4, 2026
Skills Strategy

AI Fluency as a Core Competency

Why AI fluency is becoming the literacy of the modern workforce — and how to build it across an organization without turning everyone into a prompt engineer.

11 min Jun 11, 2026
Content Strategy

The Content Half-Life Crisis

Your learning library is decaying faster than you can rebuild it. Engineering content for continuous freshness in an age of accelerating change.

9 min Jun 18, 2026

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