01| Everybody uses the word intelligence and nobody stops to check whether they mean the same thing. Artificial intelligence. Emotional intelligence. Collective intelligence. Social intelligence. Street smarts. IQ. The word carries four or five different jobs and buckles under all of them. Before we can ask what the barrio needs, we have to say what we are talking about. 02| We use four terms and we keep them separate. 03| Cognitive intelligence is how you think. Breaking a p

01| Ask whether poor people are less intelligent and you have walked into a trap. Say yes and you are doing eugenics. Say no and somebody immediately asks why so many are poor, and you have no answer ready. The question is built to have no clean exit. 02| The question is wrong. It collapses two things that need to stay apart: what somebody could develop, and what somebody has developed. Potential and trained capability. Every honest answer lives in the gap between them. 03| O

01| If intelligence is trainable, the obvious question is why so little of it develops — including inside organizations that exist to develop it. The answer is that intelligence does not flow freely. It gets blocked, and the blocks are predictable enough to name. 02| Four layers. Individual thinking, individual feeling, group dynamics, organizational structure. Each one can stop good thinking on its own. Stacked, they are the normal condition. 03| Layer one: thinking errors.

01| Every project in the barrio is produced by a group. That single fact makes group intelligence more important to us than individual intelligence, and it is the second question the part has to answer: which intelligences does a group need to perform better? 02| Start with the uncomfortable part. Groups can be smarter than their smartest member. Groups can also be dumber than their dumbest. Both happen routinely, and the difference is not luck or goodwill. It is design. 03|

01| The first question in the brief: can human and artificial intelligence work together to increase performance? Our answer is yes, with a specific division of labor, and the division is what makes the answer worth anything. 02| The framing that dominates public conversation is AI versus humans. Replacement, competition, threat. That framing produces bad decisions in both directions — either refusing tools that work, or handing over judgment that should never leave the room.

01| Intelligence is potential energy. Capability is work done. The distinction is the whole reason this part carries both words in its title, and it is where the argument turns from what people are to what the organization can actually deliver. 02| A capability is not a person. It is a defined area of competence that produces a specific deliverable — a community needs assessment, a trained rookie, a project quality rating, a set of accounts that balance. It normally involves

01| Everything so far describes a stock — what people know, what groups can do, what capabilities exist at what stage. Stocks decay. What makes an organization get smarter rather than merely stay smart is a flow, and the flow is a loop. 02| The loop is the same at every level. Act. Observe what happened. Reflect on why. Adjust. Act again. When it runs, learning compounds. When it breaks, you get motion without improvement and the same mistakes on a schedule. 03| It breaks in