CRAFT in Action · Book 2

Not Some Algorithm of Me

Ed Bastian's Emory address, and what happened when a leader's own words were mistaken for a machine's.

Book cover, dark navy. CRAFT IN ACTION in gold above the title NOT SOME ALGORITHM OF ME, with a hand-drawn white robot face beneath it.

Every leader has stood in a moment that needed them, not a version of them. On 11 May 2026, Ed Bastian stood in that moment before the graduating class of Emory University, ran the AI test, and chose the harder path. This book examines how, using the CRAFT Method across all five dimensions. And the question his choice leaves open: what AI can do for a leader before the moment that matters. Not to celebrate the speech. To name the discipline underneath it.