Who answers when a machine acts on its own? Presuppositions are the realm of HI… and the questions we ask come before the code is ever run.
The Guardrails Begin With the Question
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Kevin J. Barrett
Kevin J. Barrett is an Australian-American business trainer and strategist based in Zephyrhills, Florida. He joined 3M in Rochester, New York in July 1966 and left as Senior International Technical Marketing Manager in September 1987, then founded KJ Barrett & Associates, which he has run in every year since — in Australia through 2003 and from the same Zephyrhills address since 2002. His earliest surviving course text is dated February 1993. He coined the term Creatrepreneur — someone who builds with entrepreneurial discipline and creative formation — as well as Creation Society, first evidenced in a document dated 25 February 2000, and the operating principle Formation over Extraction. He writes The Creatrepreneur Chronicles. The dated record is at thecreatrepreneur.com/record.
Posts by Kevin J. Barrett
The Responsibility Gap
The Responsibility Gap is the distance between what people are expected to carry and the time, support, authority and recognition they have to carry it well. It forms where the Survival Gap and the Appreciation Deficit meet… and it lands hardest on the people with the least of both.
The Inner Council: The Captain at My Inner Table
The Inner Council is the small circle of ideals you consult deliberately when the decision is yours alone. When Patrick Stewart died at 86, Kevin J. Barrett thanked the man behind the starship captain who has sat at his inner table since a Silva Method class in Sydney.
The Answer Was Never the Point
An MIT mathematician just solved a decades-old problem with AI in the room. Then he told the world what he’s teaching his students instead of answers. You can’t create from answers you were handed. You can only create from understanding you earned.
The Survival Gap
I sent a free gift to about 700 athletic directors. The numbers said it worked. The truth was quieter… and more important. The Survival Gap is the distance between what people know would help them and the time they have to reach for it.
While We Debate the Gates
America is finally having the argument it postponed for fifteen years. Haidt, Twenge, and Galloway are right to force the fight over the gates… but the gates will take years, and every gate leaks. This Chronicle is about what goes in kids’ hands today.
Stop!… In the Name of Love
You’re scrolling… and something catches you. Your chest tightens, your pulse picks up, and your thumb is already moving. Stop. Not the post. You. The STOP Technique — a martial art for the algorithmic age.
Tell Them They Are Being Attacked
It was the mid-1990s, in Chatswood, one of Sydney’s more comfortable suburbs. I was running a course for people who had lost their work, and the room told you something the headlines did not: unemployment had reached the leafy streets too. No postcode was immune.
The 70-Day Yes
The 70-Day Yes Profit is not a moral failing. Avoidance is. From the Desk of Kevin J. Barrett — The Creatrepreneur Chronicle In August of 2024, I closed a fifteen-year chapter of my working life — coach, teacher, assistant athletic director, and the many other hats...