
Samurai ethics in the age of systems
Bushidō was a strategic code for conduct under pressure. This essay reframes seven core tenets as modern leadership principles for those building systems where ethics, clarity, and scale must coexist.
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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.
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I write and design short essays that honour the deeply human truths inside systems of technology and change.
Bushidō was a strategic code for conduct under pressure. This essay reframes seven core tenets as modern leadership principles for those building systems where ethics, clarity, and scale must coexist.
I write and make art to process the world. This is how I stay sharp, human, and honest – while growing, parenting, and building systems that scale.
What’s your AI optimizing for, and how does it know it’s off course? A guide for strategic leaders building systems that learn.
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.
A letter for those who design systems that don’t punish forgetting but protect against it, this one’s for the builders of trust.
A field note for those who know that better decisions rarely come from consensus, but from learning to hold contradiction, and keep moving forward.
A letter for the ones rising with quiet strength after years of muted mics and invisible resilience.
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.
A letter for the ones who were called “too much,” when they were simply tuned too finely for broken systems.
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