https://www.projectvolantis.com An opinion journal questioning the vision of intelligence through the valor of ideas and inquiry. en-us Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/from-ai-enthusiasm-to-enterprise-value https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/from-ai-enthusiasm-to-enterprise-value Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Agentic Frontier Finance leaders rarely ask about large language models. They ask why AI should matter to them. This is a contextual map connecting Oracle EPM's embedded AI to real finance outcomes — and the organizational disciplines required to earn them. https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/agentic-epm-demands-foundational-context https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/agentic-epm-demands-foundational-context Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Agentic Frontier SaaS abstracted away the database. Generative AI now threatens to abstract away the application layer entirely. The value of a practitioner is no longer the code or the widget — it is the context. https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/ossification-of-human-general-intelligence https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/ossification-of-human-general-intelligence Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT On Intelligence We built machines to extend our minds. The quiet risk is that in leaning on them, we let the muscles they were meant to assist quietly wither. https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/the-cult-of-the-clever https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/the-cult-of-the-clever Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT On Intelligence We have confused intelligence with the performance of it. The costliest ideas of our age were not stupid — they were brilliant, and that was the problem. https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/against-the-frictionless-mind https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/against-the-frictionless-mind Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT The Machine Question Every tool that thinks for us removes a friction we once mistook for effort. Some of that friction was the thinking itself. https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/the-tyranny-of-the-reasonable https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/the-tyranny-of-the-reasonable Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Illusions We Reward The very quality we trust to protect us from error — being reasonable — is often the thing that quietly stops us from thinking at all. https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/a-defense-of-slow-conviction https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/a-defense-of-slow-conviction Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Ideas Worth Defending We change our minds too quickly now, and mistake it for open-mindedness. Some beliefs are worth the discomfort of holding. https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/intelligence-is-not-a-scalar https://www.projectvolantis.com/essays/intelligence-is-not-a-scalar Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT On Intelligence The moment we agreed intelligence could be ranked on a single line, we agreed to be ruled by whoever sat highest on it.