Research & Ideas
This page brings together selected field notes, book extracts and ideas connected to the Time × Trust × Cooperation framework.
These are applied pieces and previews from the larger work in progress, not the formal foundational presentation of TTC.
How to Stay Irreplaceable in the Age of AI
(The TTC Way)
A short field note applying the Time × Trust × Cooperation framework to human value, responsibility and collaboration in the age of AI.
What the field note argues
- Time Depth
The ability to act today while holding the thread of tomorrow, remembering how decisions age instead of collapsing into short-term speed.
- Trust Equity
Trust is an accumulated asset built by taking responsibility and staying calm when others panic, rather than the accuracy we grant to machines.
- Cooperation Reach
Humans scale relationships where machines scale tasks; cooperation multiplies impact as complexity grows.
- The Self-Destruct Strategy
"Make your job obsolete as soon as possible": build systems, train others, and let the work run without you. Paradoxically, this makes the contribution last beyond the role.
- The TTC equation
Irreplaceability = Time Depth × Trust Equity × Cooperation Reach. Grow all three to move from replaceable execution to lasting influence.
The Kill Switch Test
AI as the TTC stress test: builders, sprinters, values and the correction loop
A preview extract from the forthcoming book The Airport Bathroom Test. It examines agentic AI through the TTC framework and asks whether institutions can still see, stop and correct automated action before errors become consequences.
What the extract argues
- Agentic AI
AI no longer merely produces content. It can initiate consequences across connected systems.
- Builder AI versus Sprinter AI
Builder AI strengthens institutional maintenance and correction. Sprinter AI accelerates output beyond the institution's capacity to govern it.
- Correction capacity
The central risk is not intelligence itself, but action moving faster than detection, verification and correction.
- The Kill Switch Test
A resilient institution must know what its agents are doing, detect failure, contain the blast radius and stop the workflow.
- Five questions before an agent acts
Time, Trust, Cooperation, Reversibility and Accountability.
Publications
More TTC publications will be added as the project develops.
- AvailableField note · Djellil Bouzidi · 2026 · PDF
- AvailableBook extract · Djellil Bouzidi · 2026 · PDF
Suggested citations
Bouzidi, Djellil. "How to Stay Irreplaceable in the Age of AI (The TTC Way)." The Airport Bathroom Test, 2026.
Bouzidi, Djellil. "The Kill Switch Test." Preview extract from The Airport Bathroom Test, 2026.
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