About two months ago, Pope Leo XIV released his first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas: On safeguarding the human person in the age of artificial intelligence. A papal encyclical is a letter from the pope to bishops and people of good will, which represents the highest form of teaching, often on …

Enterprise architects love centralization. It’s in our DNA. We see inconsistency across teams and our instinct is to fix it with a standard. One framework. One pipeline. One way. But there’s a principle that suggests a better path. Not centralize everything, and not hands-off either. …