A six-minute close reading of Roy Tran's essay on the organizational cost of the digital native myth.

The essay opens on a single term: Resume Botox. The practice of professionals editing graduation years off their profiles. Not from shame. Because they have read the room. This brief sits with that image — and what it reveals about where AI strategy is going wrong.

This is the audio companion to What the Digital Native Myth Is Costing Organizations, part of The Human Code series.

In this brief

• The category error at the center of most AI readiness conversations

• What the KPMG 57/25 gap looks like inside a real organization

• The three capabilities that determine whether AI deployment holds or breaks

• Why the Resume Botox response is rational — and what that signals about the organization giving the signal

A line that stayed with me

> The guardrails are leaving the building before anyone has mapped where they stood.

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The full long-form lives here: What the Digital Native Myth Is Costing Organizations

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