I recently picked up Bjarne P. Tellmann’s Law in the Era of AI . It’s a broad look at how AI is causing organizational change, but two takeaways stood out to me: first, survival hinges on fiercely defending your deep cognitive focus against operational noise; second, staying relevant requires completely reframing how you deliver commercial value. 1) The Cloister and the Starship We have reached a juncture where AI can draft ninety-five percent of a standard corporate document in minutes (p.114). As Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon observed, this automation turns routine legal drafting into a commodity, leaving professional value concentrated entirely in the remaining five percent of strategic judgment (ibid). If lawyers outsource early-stage comprehension to machine summaries, they risk cognitive atrophy and lose the capacity to execute that high-value final tier. Niall Ferguson proposed balancing this dynamic through cloisters and starships (p.248). The starship represents the high-s...