Organizational Gravity - Bonus Episode 1

Special edition. This week I’m reading you my newest essay, If Only I Were More Human — out loud, in my actual voice, the one format you can’t run through a detector. The short version: Substack turned on an AI detector called Pangram, and it scored an essay I wrote alone on the Fourth of July at 83% AI. This episode is my answer. It’s a story about how I actually write—the chaos, the em dashes, my wife catching my comma splices—and about what the detector actually measures. Spoiler: it isn’t humanity. The part I really want you to hear is the governance. A platform had a real problem, skipped the root cause, and deployed a measurement dressed up as a control. No intake. No root cause. Just symptom to solution. Governance is not measurement. In this episode: * Why a human writing process trips an AI detector * The teaching trap: to score more human, I’d have to become less useful * Editing has always been assistance—and assistance has always been bought * What a legitimate control requires: explainable and actionable Read the essay: If I Were Only More Human Try it yourself: run your own writing through a detector and tell me what you score. The Organizational Gravity podcast — how organizations accumulate complexity, and how to take it back out. Get full access to Gabe | Organizational Gravity at organizationalgravity.substack.com/subscribe