Structural Analogy as a Diagnostic Method: How to Read Organizational Pathologies Through Distant Domains

A first series of four articles on technology governance is already published on LinkedIn and established a diagnosis: inherited governance models are structurally misaligned with the pace of AI-driven change. This new series addresses a prior question: how do we diagnose organizational pathologies rigorously in the first place? The answer proposed here is methodological: structural analogy across distant domains. Why I Am Writing This I have been thinking about analogy since 2005, longer than I have been thinking about most things professionally. ...

March 15, 2026 · 12 min · Gabriel Mailhot

Similarity Is (almost) Solved. Analogy Is Not.

On Creativity, Metaphor, and What AI Still Needs to Learn A Theory of Creativity First Before building any system, I needed to understand what creativity actually is. Here is the formulation I arrived at around 2005, working as a researcher in Québec City: Humans cannot create something entirely new from nothing. We can only perceive reality through our senses. You cannot imagine a color that does not exist. You cannot conceive a sound you have never heard. The entire domain available to human creativity is bounded by accumulated sensory experience. ...

February 26, 2026 · 7 min · Gabriel Mailhot