Essays.
Long-form notes on coordination technologies, AI fluency, and the shape of the work.
- № 011·May 13, 2026
Anyone Can Be Anything (Except Accountable)
Your brilliant, amnesiac coworker doesn't hold the bag — you do.
20 min read - № 010·May 5, 2026
AI Fluency: A Map for Outsiders and Native Speakers
A framework for locating yourself in your relationship with AI — Outsider, Tourist, Conversationalist, Fluent, Native Speaker — five recognizable places, not a ladder to climb.
28 min read - № 009·February 3, 2026
Working with Dory: Context Rot and the Sleeping Agent
Your AI developer is hallucinating. Not because it's broken—because it's exhausted. A framework for treating AI as a coworker with short-term memory loss.
8 min read - № 008·June 20, 2025
My Family Built Civilizations With Stories. Now I Study How They Work
How my Mormon ancestors built civilizations, and because of that heritage, I see the world differently.
11 min read - № 007·June 3, 2025
Your AI Should Insult You: Why I Built a Digital Court Jester
Most AI assistants are trained to be your biggest fan. They'll praise your half-baked ideas, gently suggest improvements, and cushion every criticism with three compliments. It's like having a personal cheerleader who never tells you when your presentation sucks.
6 min read - № 006·May 25, 2025
Enterprise Senolytics: Clearing the Zombie Processes
Identifying and eliminating zombie processes and legacy systems that drain resources while providing minimal value - a systematic approach to organizational rejuvenation.
12 min read - № 005·May 24, 2025
Platform as a Product: Evolutionary Governance in Practice
Treating internal platforms as products rather than infrastructure, and how evolutionary governance can transform developer experience and organizational effectiveness.
11 min read - № 004·May 15, 2025
The Desire Path Problem - Why Platform Governance Fails
Exploring the emergent complexity of socio-technical systems and why traditional governance models fall short in the face of organic organizational evolution.
10 min read - № 003·April 19, 2025
How Sound Money Made Me Think Differently About Everything
How Bitcoin's monetary properties and the erosion of sound money have transformed my worldview.
15 min read - № 002·April 2, 2025
A Dog Lover's Lament: How our Loneliness Turned Wolves into Anxious Children
How our loneliness turned wolves into anxious pets, and now AI is being groomed as our next emotional support system. This essay explores how our fear of human rejection drives us to seek substitutes
10 min read - № 001·March 14, 2025
The Trails That Changed How I See Systems
Have you ever noticed those worn trails cutting across perfectly manicured lawns? The ones that ignore the carefully planned sidewalks, creating their own routes between buildings? I always noticed them. Something about those unofficial paths felt significant, but I couldn't quite put my finger on why. Their ubiquity seemed to signal something important about human nature or how the world actually works.
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