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Weekly editions on technology, leadership, and humanity—original writing for people building a more human future.

1. Edition #42: The Friction You Keep: AI, Judgment and Effort

   AI removes the effort that builds judgment. A behavioral scientist on the say-do gap, why experience is slowing down, and what to protect.

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-10-17

2. Edition #41: The Guardrails Are the Speed

   Why the companies slowing down for AI governance are the ones still running

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-10-10

3. Edition #40: The Job Nobody Is Counting

   Inside AI evaluation: the fastest-growing career in tech, why your company already needs one, and what it takes to do the work

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-10-02

4. Edition #39: AI is leaving the screen. Who decides what it's for?

   A former Google robotics leader on the societal storm ahead, why dignity is the real design goal, and the one exercise that makes everything simpler

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-09-25

5. Edition #38: There Is No Robot-Proof Skill

   A neuroscientist who trained AI on 122 million people explains the one thing it still can't replace — and it isn't a skill

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-09-19

6. Edition #37: The Abundance Game

   Why the companies that use AI to amplify their people will pull away from the ones quietly hollowing themselves out

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-09-11

7. Edition #36: Before We Upgrade the Brain

   AI can already write for us. Brain interfaces are beginning to move, speak, and act for us. The harder question is what should remain ours.

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-09-04

8. Edition #35: Influence, Not Control

   The neuroscience of moving people — and why it's about to be the most valuable skill you have

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-08-29

9. Edition #1: The Becoming Human Manifesto - You were never meant to stay the same.

   You were never meant to stay the same. This is how The Human Protocol began: a reminder that even in a world being rewritten by algorithms, we still have the choice to return to ourselves. Not for perfection. Not for performance. But for truth.

   By Mykel Salomon · 2026-01-10

10. Welcome to The Human Protocol Newsletter

    There's a quiet revolution happening. Not in code. Not in cloud. But in the conversations we're having about what it means to be human in a world accelerating toward AI, automation, and algorithms.

    By Mykel Salomon · 2026-01-03