You may already be experiencing Cognitive Atrophy without realizing it.
Not a loss of intelligence. A loss of practice.
AI took over the small daily lifts that kept your judgment warm. Forming the take before you search. Sitting in an unresolved question. Defending a position without notes. None of those disappeared because you got worse at them. They disappeared because something else started doing them for you.
The decline does not feel like a decline. It feels like efficiency. Right up until the moment that asks you to think on your feet, and you hesitate.
That is what this publication is about.
The Human Intelligence Brief is a weekly read for executives, CHROs, and the people responsible for leadership capability inside organizations moving fast on AI. Every issue does the same three things: names a pattern I am seeing in the coaching room, grounds it in verified research, and hands you one instrument you can use this week.
None of it is anti-AI. I use AI constantly, and I teach leaders to integrate it. The enemy is not the tool. It is the unexamined use of it.
What you get, most Wednesdays:
→ One pattern from twenty years of coaching senior leaders
→ One verified research anchor, always sourced
→ One instrument you can use before Friday
Who I am. I am Joshua Miller, a Master Certified Executive Coach. For nearly two decades, I have coached senior leaders at Google, Amazon, PayPal, Cisco, the NFL, and the U.S. Navy. Before that, I led Talent and Leadership Development inside Fortune 500 companies.
More than a million people have taken my courses on LinkedIn Learning. I am also a LinkedIn Top Voice, a TEDx speaker, and an Amazon bestselling author.
I created the Cognitive A.T.R.O.P.H.Y. Model, the seven signals of AI-driven cognitive decline, and the Human Intelligence Advantage: Awareness, Adaptability, Authenticity. The capabilities AI cannot replace.
Start here. Before AI reshapes your organization, make sure it isn’t reshaping your ability to think. The Human Intelligence Assessment is free, takes about ten minutes, and shows you where your thinking is sharp and where it has been coasting longer than you realize.
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