What is "AI-Powered Diplomacy" anyway?

I just finished Dan Spokojny’s great article “Should Diplomats Trust AI?” The piece is anchored by two new items: the recent Foreign Service Journal issue that focused heavily on AI (which I contributed to), as well as the December 2025 AI-Powered Diplomacy paper from the Pavel Slunkin writing

You Got Promoted. Now What? An Adaptive Leadership Guide to Career Transition

The skills that got you promoted are often the ones that will undermine you next. This is a guide to the three career transitions that change what effectiveness means — from individual contributor to manager, from manager to leader of leaders, and the inner work that makes the difference.

Why your weekly 1:1 has compounding benefits

I was about seven years into my career before I had a manager who did regular 1:1s with me, not the quarterly check-ins or annual reviews I was used to, but actual recurring conversations about work, about thinking, about how things were going. About four months in, we

Claude Code and Antigravity for Federal Practitioners: One Vault with Two Tools

DoW designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk. If you built workflows around Claude Code, here's how to protect your investment by running two AI tools against one shared vault.

Claude Code Alternatives for Federal Practitioners: AI Work That Outlasts Any Vendor

The DoW designated Anthropic a supply-chain risk. If you built workflows around Claude Code, here's how to protect your investment with portable, vendor-agnostic AI setups.

Identic AI: Why Personalized Agents Are the Next Layer of Enterprise AI

Enterprise AI doesn't have to repeat the oldest mistake in IT. A three-layer model — shared data, standardized skills, and personalized agents — lets organizations amplify individual judgment instead of standardizing it away. The technology exists today.

Themes Are Not Feedback

Feedback built on aggregated impressions — "multiple people have raised concerns" — strips away everything that makes feedback useful. The research is clear: effective feedback is specific, actionable, and timely.

What Works on LinkedIn (And Why)

Most LinkedIn advice falls into one of two categories: tactical tricks that aim to game the system or vague encouragement to "post consistently and engage authentically." Neither helps you understand how the platform actually works, which is what you need to make good decisions about your own strategy.

Document Feedback Reference Sheet

For the reasoning behind this system, see Why Feedback Order Matters: A System for Document Review. The Three Tiers TierScopeAddressExamplesHigher Order (HOC)Whole documentFirstArgument, structure, purpose, audience fit, completenessMiddle Order (MOC)Sections/paragraphsSecondTransitions, evidence integration, tone, proportionalityLower Order (LOC)Sentences/wordsLastGrammar, spelling, word choice, formatting The core rule: Always work

Why Feedback Order Matters: A System for Document Review

Bad document feedback was the bane of my existence at the State Department. (We always talked about "happy to glad" changes). You've probably seen this happen. Someone sends a draft for review. The first reviewer opens it, spots a comma splice on page one, fixes it,

How to Make your LinkedIn Profile Sing - 360Brew Edition

LinkedIn's algorithm has never been intuitive for users of other social media platforms: from its preference for once-a-day posting to how it values different forms of engagement. This got even more complicated in late 2025, when LinkedIn launched the 360Brew algorithm, a 150-billion parameter language

Getting Started with Claude Code: Building a Personalized AI System

Every conversation with AI starts from scratch. This tutorial builds the system that fixes that — persistent context, project memory, and a personal vault that makes each session smarter than the last. Built for diplomats, analysts, and federal professionals who need more than a chatbot.