Banks Benitez

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - August 2023

On insurance, original thinking, main street businesses, and electrification

Conscious Leadership

Your team is managing you

It’s less that leaders are managing their employees and more that their employees have figured out how to manage their leader.

Conscious Leadership

Optimizations vs. goals

"Everyone is sharpening their sword for the battle that's never going to come.”

Impact

The dangers of concept creep

When concept creep gets out of control

Personal Reflections

Co-working with Family

On co-working with my dad

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - July 2023

On leadership, concept creep, and optimizations vs. goals, and family business

Conscious Leadership

Can AI usher in the 4-day workweek?

Are AI-generated productivity gains enough to mainstream a 4-day workweek?

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - June 2023

On what needs to change, AI & the job market, climate fintech research, and Fes, Morocco.

Personal Reflections

The psychology of architecture

Choose the environments that shape us into the people we want to become.

AI & the job market

60% of the jobs in America today didn’t exist in 1940

Conscious Leadership

On Strategic Planning

“All organizations are perfectly designed to get the results they get.”

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - May 2023

On defining reality, the pendulum swings of nuance, rising insurance premiums due to climate change, and a marriage ceremony

Climate

Insurance risk: Climate change's canary

The effects of climate change are causing an economic crisis for insurance companies.

The pendulum swing of nuance

Our media environment is suffering a crisis of nuance: either we are missing it entirely or we are steeped in it to the point where we’ve lost the plot.

Conscious Leadership

On Defining Reality

At the heart of every company, there is a story about what’s important and what’s true.

On Rehearsal Dinners

What we hold back

Climate

Paperwork and Hammer Businesses

For every flashy climate technology, there are ten boring businesses that are flying under the radar, solving everyday problems involving hammers or paperwork.

Conscious Leadership

The power of asymmetrical risk

We’re often told this story that the greater the risk, the greater the reward, but that misguides us to think that the levers holding risk and reward are always equally balanced.

Conscious Leadership

Process vs. Authority

Before building lots of processes, build clear authorities, then determine what process is needed.

Impact

The Undertow of Technology

The wave of technological progress may move us forward, but the stronger its force, the stronger its undertow.

Uncharted Insider

The Insider - April 2023

The undertow of technology, over engineering process, asymmetrical risk, boring businesses, and rehearsal dinners.

Car Accidents & Strangers

The burst of humanity after a near-fatal wreck.

Conscious Leadership

Redefining Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence, and how intelligence is a relationship between us and the world.

Climate

Geoengineering: The risks of desperation

Humans tend to be more interventionist than preventionist.

Conscious Leadership

The Four Acts of Company Building

There are often four acts to building a company.