Field Notes
How machines know they’re off course, and why it matters
What’s your AI optimizing for, and how does it know it’s off course? A guide for strategic leaders building systems that learn.
Emi Linds
June 5, 2025
The Human Margin Blog
The Human Margin by Emi Linds delivers short-form essays and field notes for professionals, parents, systems-builders, and strategic leaders. Read human‑centered perspectives on leadership, AI design and adoption, trust, ambiguity, and clarity in complex systems.
Explore Emi’s framework in depth, visit The Human Margin Framework page to see pillars like trust protocols, decision frameworks, narrative design, and language models.
I write and design short essays that honour the deeply human truths inside systems of technology and change.
Field Notes
The leadership survival skill that scales
This piece explores de-escalation as a survival skill – not just for crisis teams, but for leaders navigating tension, trust, and power dynamics in real time.
Emi Linds
May 28, 2025
System x Self
To the ones who keep the momentum alive
A letter for those who design systems that don’t punish forgetting but protect against it, this one’s for the builders of trust.
Emi Linds
May 22, 2025
Field Notes
How polarity mapping strengthens decision-making
A field note for those who know that better decisions rarely come from consensus, but from learning to hold contradiction, and keep moving forward.
Emi Linds
May 15, 2025
The Human Margin
To the Graduating Class of 2025
A letter for the ones rising with quiet strength after years of muted mics and invisible resilience.
Emi Linds
May 10, 2025
AI/ML
AI Isn’t Magic. It’s Math in a Wizard’s Robe.
A field note on what AI actually is, why it keeps getting smarter, and how systems learn – even when we don’t see it happening.
Emi Linds
April 22, 2025
The Human Margin
To the outsiders within
A letter for the ones who were called “too much,” when they were simply tuned too finely for broken systems.
Emi Linds
April 19, 2025
System x Self
To the one who steadies the room
A letter to those who don’t chase influence, they carry infrastructure. Strategic stillness. Unseen power.
Emi Linds
April 17, 2025
The Human Margin
To the leaders forged in flames
A letter for the leaders forged in pressure, not praise – the ones whose fire became light for others.
Emi Linds
April 11, 2025
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