The Living Lab
Hope + Possibilities Podcast
These conversations happened before the Assumption-Ground Audit had a name. I wasn’t running a methodology. I was just noticing — what the guest was assuming, what the question underneath the question was, where the assumption was doing work nobody had asked it to do.
Going back and reading them through the AGA now, the methodology is right there. It was always there. That’s what the Living Lab is: retroactive evidence that the discipline predated the framework. The methodology just finally caught up.
When Feedback Feels Like a Threat
What Sarah Noll Wilson and I mapped before anyone filed a lawsuit: the assumption underneath workplace retaliation, and how AI encoded it at scale.
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When the Experts Turn the Lens on You
Erica and Leslie Ehm came on the podcast to talk about M². What happened instead was a live demonstration of their methodology — on me.
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AI Already Decided Who You Are
Cher Jones and I talked about personal branding and AI discoverability. I looked myself up on ChatGPT before we started. I didn’t exist.
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The framework those conversations built toward has a name now. The Assumption-Ground Audit is where the work continues.