Writing
Essays, concepts, and working notes — newest first.
- Essay What Kind of Complexity Should We Afford Ourselves? Cowan's More Work for Mother, turned on AI: appliances didn't save labor, they let us choose new complexity. Treat AI as a dishwasher, not a god.
- Concept Agency Deficit Organizations rarely suffer an information deficit. They lack the agency and time to act on what they already know. Applied right, that is where AI adds value.
- Essay Sovereignty Is the Ground That Stays Under You Europe keeps demanding AI sovereignty without naming a game it can win. Stop chasing a frontier champion. Compete for the open, local floor instead.
- Concept Lab Renaissance The return of the small, day-to-day-decoupled team — Lab or Center of Excellence — as the organizational-design answer to AI adoption.
- Note Contact Lenses for a Headband Agents collapsed the cost of joining data: a half-broken EEG headband experiment, and why noisy sensors now make every archive worth more.
- Essay Nostalgia is not the word Gen Z's appetite for retro is not nostalgia. It is hauntology: longing for a future that was promised and never arrived. The nostalgia is the brands'.
- Concept Memory as Medium The thesis that memory — not content, not messages, not notes — becomes the central primitive for publishing, professional identity, and collaboration in AI-mediated knowledge work
- Concept Agentic Memory How AI agents persist, structure, and manage memory — three philosophical camps, six analytical axes, and twenty-one systems mapped.
- Concept The Coordination Agent What happens when you give a multi-party project an AI team member with persistent memory across every tool and conversation.
- Note Atmosphere A visualization of reasoning terrain — close to a thousand sessions rendered as a living nebula of colored gas.
- Note Shev A personal observer agent that watches how I think across conversations — named after Shevek from Le Guin's The Dispossessed.
- Essay Brain Dead — How I Built an AI-Operated Knowledge Vault Architecture, data model, and decisions behind an Obsidian vault where AI agents do most of the writing.