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Twenty Years Later: How Jennings' Seven Signs of Ethical Collapse Became a Universal Law of Institutional Failure

In 2006, Marianne Jennings identified seven warning signs of organizational moral crisis. Twenty years and countless scandals later, her framework has proven prescient—and expanded far beyond corporations into government, tech, and global institutions.

By Chris Groves 04 Feb 2026
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culture

AI and C.S. Lewis: How The Abolition of Man Predicted Our Current Moment

In 1943, C.S. Lewis warned of a philosophical crisis that's now arriving with AI. We've embraced moral relativism while building systems that require absolute moral certainty.

By Chris Groves 03 Feb 2026
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Building Custom Skills in the Intelligence Adjacent Framework

Master skill architecture patterns that enable production AI systems. Learn the 5-phase workflow, design patterns, and proven implementation strategies from production frameworks with multiple specialized skills.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 03 Feb 2026
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From Job Spam to Smart Applications: Automated Career Analysis with the IA Framework Career Skill

Stop spray-and-pray applications. The career skill delivers GO/NO-GO scoring, parallel job analysis, and cost-efficient career insights at $0.25 per job—all deployable yourself.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 01 Feb 2026
X Open-Sourced Their Algorithm. Here's What the Code Actually Reveals.

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X Open-Sourced Their Algorithm. Here's What the Code Actually Reveals.

X open-sourced their algorithm architecture but kept the weight values proprietary. The code structure reveals what signals the system tracks—and strategic priorities most creators miss.

By Chris Groves 29 Jan 2026
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culture

The Roll-Up Economy: How Private Equity Is Monopolizing Everything

From cybersecurity to plumbing, private equity uses identical playbook to consolidate fragmented industries. The result: higher prices, reduced competition, and consumers paying for financial engineering.

By Chris Groves 22 Jan 2026
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Ephemeral Observability: Real-Time Monitoring for AI Development

Introducing a new design pattern for developer tools: ephemeral observability. The IA Framework monitor skill demonstrates how architectural constraints create advantages for localhost AI development workflows.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 21 Jan 2026
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2026 Predictions: The Year We Stop Pretending

From AI anxiety to career stagnation, 2026 marks the year of accountability—when job market predictions, education disruption, and mental health trends converge into a reality check.

By Chris Groves 21 Jan 2026
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Framework Evolution: Architecture Improvements and Mission Clarity

How progressive disclosure and mission-driven design transformed onboarding from manual multi-step process into platform-specific automation that handles prerequisite installation, system optimization, and framework configuration.

By Chris Groves 20 Jan 2026
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infrastructure

Hard Lessons from a Failed Framework Redesign

I spent 8 days rebuilding the IA Framework from the ground up. It failed spectacularly. Here's what I learned about engineering reality, AI behavior, and the value of boring solutions.

By Chris Groves 18 Jan 2026
Three-tier hierarchical context loading architecture

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Hierarchical Context Loading: Reducing Token Usage by 60%

Why bigger context windows don't mean better results. A three-layer architecture that loads only what's needed, when it's needed.

By Chris Groves 01 Jan 2026
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The Smartness Tax: Hidden Costs of Over-Engineered Code

The most sophisticated code in your codebase might be the most expensive to maintain. Here's why deleting clever components often improves everything.

lock-1 By Chris Groves 01 Jan 2026
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Democratizing expertise through deployable modules within Intelligence Adjacent. I'm Chris Groves, sharing lessons learned building AI systems that augment human capability instead of replace it.