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UNDERTOW 017: The Zero-Deductible Organization
AI just made one hundred percent coverage available for the first time. That is the problem.
Jul 5
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JoRoan Lazaro
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June 2026
UNDERTOW 016: How to De-Risk Creativity
Your process didn't strangle the idea. It made sure no one had to have it.
Jun 28
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JoRoan Lazaro
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UNDERTOW 015: Tacit Harvest
AI is learning to do the work no one could ever explain, by recording the people who do it, then setting them aside.
Jun 21
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JoRoan Lazaro
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UNDERTOW 014: The Conferred Life
A funeral for a hundred robot dogs, a dying language, a 6,000-year-old skeleton. One idea connects them, and it's already in the thing you're building.
Jun 14
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JoRoan Lazaro
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Everyone Came Out All Right
What grief and a weight-loss drug are doing to the same part of us
Jun 6
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JoRoan Lazaro
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May 2026
UNDERTOW 013: Laundered Presence
The robot hides a person to look autonomous. The office siren styles a person to look like a machine. Same job, opposite ends of the same wire.
May 31
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JoRoan Lazaro
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UNDERTOW 012: The Presence Split
The market took one human need and split it in two: a synthetic half handed free to everyone, the human half sold to the few.
May 25
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JoRoan Lazaro
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UNDERTOW 011: Aura, Audited
AI carpet-bombed the culture. Brussels legislated the floor under what survives
May 13
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JoRoan Lazaro
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UNDERTOW 010: Translation Capture
Frontier AI labs are running streetwear's absorption arc in reverse. Here's how to read the leaked memos, philosopher hires, donated standards, and…
May 6
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JoRoan Lazaro
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April 2026
UNDERTOW 009: The Provenance Premium
Why luxury, bodies, and AI are all suddenly obsessed with proving they're real.
Apr 27
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JoRoan Lazaro
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UNDERTOW 008: Compliance Curiosity
Why the best advice for surviving AI is a form of obedience.
Apr 17
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JoRoan Lazaro
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UNDERTOW 007: Guessing at the Speed of Confidence
A provocation for anyone running a creative organization on someone else’s clock
Apr 12
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JoRoan Lazaro
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