Hi, I’m Joshua—organizational psychologist, data strategist, and your corporate bard-in-residence. This Substack is called That Corporate Bard because that’s the role I seem to play: making sense of corporate chaos through systems thinking, sarcasm, and a soft spot for transformation.

This is a space for cold takes, soft power, and sharp commentary on the rituals, roles, and ridiculousness of corporate life. Here’s what I’ll be writing about…

Recently, I was asked to design metrics for a set of early-stage AI agents.

In true Corporate Bard fashion, I wrote an opera.

The team needed two chords; I handed them a full overture with leitmotifs and mood lighting.

But beneath the theatrical flourish was a real problem: we’re still measuring AI agents like Web 2.5 products.

Recommendation quality. Relevance. Click-through. Discoverability.

As if someone slapped a conversational UI over the Amazon homepage and called it the future.

In Everything Everywhere All at Once, Evelyn isn’t short on voices—she’s overwhelmed by them. Each version of herself pulls, shouts, overlaps. The challenge isn’t finding words, it’s making one voice land in this universe, at this moment.

For neurodivergent professionals (NVLD, Autism Spectrum), like myself, communication can feel like that multiverse. The raw draft is true. The instinctive reply is real. But in the workplace multiverse—Slack, stand-ups, status reports, engineers, PMs, VPs—those truths often get misread.

Navigating this feels like forcing a universe-hop without the magic—unnatural, draining, and costly. Call it the Polite Wrapper Tax

You’ve probably seen this stat by now — MIT and Forbes both cite that 95% of Generative AI pilots fail.

The cold take is this: AI isn’t an ERP or CRM system. It’s a multitool for the modern knowledge worker — from engineers to executive assistants.

🚨Breaking🚨: Acme Corp Sued for Discriminatory Return-to-Office Policy
Not yet — but it’s a headline waiting to be written.
In my latest piece, I break down how return-to-office mandates could quietly expose companies to massive legal and brand risk — and what leaders can do now to mitigate it.
This isn’t about culture; it’s about compliance, data, and foresight.

Six rounds.

Three take-home tests.

One whiteboard duel where you reverse a linked list—or sketch a window function in SQL, while four strangers grade your pulse rate, counting every backspace on the keyword.

Welcome to tech interviews in 2025: a marathon talent-show/karaoke mash-up.