by Tony Zampella | Oct 13, 2026 | Wisdom
Every week brings another warning from inside AI labs to pay as much attention to AI’s perils as its promises. Yet, we remain transfixed by what these systems can do, and how quickly they do more. Are we wise enough to live with our creation? For nearly two years,...
by Tony Zampella | Jun 15, 2026 | Learning/Coaching
Life unfolds through creative tension. The ancient Greeks captured this tension through two mythic figures: Apollo and Dionysus, both sons of Zeus (though born of different mothers: Leto and Semele, respectively). Popularized by Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy, the...
by Tony Zampella | Apr 20, 2026 | Communication, Leadership, Practice
In a previous essay on coaching, politics, and democracy, I explored what it means to treat democracy as a living conversation—and offered practices to sustain it. The foundational practice included a simple, but essential commitment: good faith. Since then,...
by Tony Zampella | Mar 12, 2026 | Wisdom
In the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Sacred Ground,” Captain Kathryn Janeway—a trained scientist with a background in quantum cosmology and a former chief science officer—faces a crisis she cannot solve through conventional means. When crewmember Kes is rendered...
by Tony Zampella | Feb 17, 2026 | Mental Models
In everyday language, care is often treated as an emotion. We speak of caring as a feeling we have toward people, causes, or outcomes. Sometimes it is framed morally—as kindness or concern—and other times therapeutically, as empathy or emotional availability. In Part...
