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Mother of Disruption

Mother of Disruption

by Jess Von Bank

About This Book

Nothing alive is frictionless. Yet we designed a future that is metallic, sterile, and optimized. We called it progress, but the chrome mirage is flickering.

Our systems are landing on nervous systems, not servers. We are not automating work; we are automating dysfunction. In Mother of Disruption, Jess Von Bank delivers a clinical, somatic diagnosis of our broken workplace: the Five Wounds of Change. For decades, organizations have managed complexity by distributing System Weight onto human bodies. Now AI threatens to harden that harm into infrastructure.

This is not an adoption playbook. It is an eviction notice from the corporate transaction. It is a class-transcendent blueprint to tear up the ledger of extraction and sign a Covenant of Care.

Lyrical, visceral, and unapologetically punk, this book will make you mad. It will make you hope. And it will remind you that we can still demand something better.

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Jess Von Bank

Jess Von Bank

Jess Von Bank is a technology humanist, future-of-work advisor, and systems thinker. She is the co-founder of Now to Next, a transformation firm specializing in the human dimensions of enterprise AI. Raised in small-town North Dakota with shoulders that know how to lift, Jess has spent more than two decades working across talent, technology, and systems design. She is a mother to three daughters, the founder of a nonprofit for girls, and an endurance athlete. Jess measures every system by how well it serves the people inside it, and believes any future of work that fails its people is no future at all.

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