Leslie Perlow — On AI
This page lists every Orange Pill Wiki entry hyperlinked from Leslie Perlow — On AI. 8 entries total. Each is a deeper-dive on a person, concept, work, event, or technology that the book treats as a stepping stone for thinking through the AI revolution. Click any card to open the entry; in each entry, words colored in orange link to other Orange Pill Wiki entries, while orange-underlined words with the Wikipedia mark link to Wikipedia.
Default Mode Network
The brain system that activates when attention is undirected — the neural substrate of creative incubation, self-reflection, and consolidation, systematically eliminated by continuous AI availability.
Democratization of Capability (Senian Reading)
The Orange Pill claim — that AI tools lower the floor of who can build — submitted to Sen's framework, which asks the harder question: does formal access convert into substantive capability expansion?
Flow State
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's name for the condition of optimal human engagement — and, in Wiener's framework, the subjective signature of a well-regulated negative feedback system.
Predictable Time Off
Perlow's deceptively simple intervention — scheduled, collective, non-negotiable periods of complete unavailability — that demonstrated the constraint improves the work.
The Cycle of Responsiveness
Perlow's foundational mechanism — the feedback loop in which one worker's late-night response becomes another's baseline, which becomes the team's norm, which becomes the culture's invisible floor.
The Incubation Effect
The cognitive phenomenon — threatened by the speed of AI feedback — in which unconscious processing of a problem over hours or days produces insights that immediate solution eliminates.
The Organization's Cognitive Debt
The liability an organization accumulates when it deploys powerful tools without designing the structures that make their use sustainable — visible in no line item, tracked by no metric, until the accumulated debt produces a failure dramati…
