Is thinking quality quietly diminishing?
We have spent decades standardizing thinking.
Standardization can make systems more efficient, but it does not eliminate differences in how people think. It only makes those differences harder to see.
Just as the body’s immune system depends on diverse receptors to detect different threats, organizations depend on different minds to notice different signals, construct meaning differently, and see what others miss.
Those differences are a source of intelligence—but we can’t make use of differences we can no longer see.
There is considerably more going on inside human thinking than our systems are designed to recognize.