Insights

Thinking on AI agents,
implementation, and governance

Practical thinking for people who want to understand what’s actually happening in the AI agent era — not the hype, the work.

Case studies

Evidence — work that happened

Real engagements, named outcomes.

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Case study

Agile Alliance

Shelf Space

Why the second version of a system is usually the one worth building — and what a grocery store taught us about running ads on WordPress.

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Case study

Agile Alliance

The Frozen Asset

How fifteen years of conference video became something an organization could actually act on.

Two studies here. Another is in progress; it appears when the work it describes is finished, not before.

Briefings

Brought to you, before you need it

Undated on purpose. These answer questions that don't expire.

The Machines We Built to Act for Us

The customer service agent didn’t malfunction. That’s the part worth sitting with.

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The Quiet Move Beyond Copper

A quiet inversion in computing — the network stops being a necessary inconvenience.

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How Chatbots Actually Write (Without the Math)

Autocomplete that can look back, decide what mattered, and keep going for paragraphs.

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The Art of Prompting as Dialogue

Prompting stops being command and becomes conversation — one human mind and one statistical one.

All briefings

Everything else

Newest first

Observations, arguments and reads.

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Three and a Half Seconds

I built two speech tools for an audience of one. What they taught me was where the line sits between a tool you invoke and a tool you use.

Aug 13, 2026 ·
14 min

Pain Is Not a Wire

Relief does not always mean the pain is gone. Sometimes it means the nervous system has stopped treating the signal as an emergency.

May 25, 2026 ·
12 min

Building the Machine That Builds the Article

Thirteen steps, three phases, every checkpoint deliberate — and the moment the system waits for its designer’s answer.

Mar 26, 2026 ·
5 min

A Vaccine, a Laptop, and a Dog Named Rosie

A rescue dog, an aggressive cancer, and a man who refused the first closed door. AI didn’t replace the expertise — it got him to it.

Mar 16, 2026 ·
7 min

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Teleporting to the Mountaintop: The Emotional Cost of AI at Work

Big projects used to feel like long hikes. What is lost when the walk disappears.

Dec 10, 2025 ·
19 min

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Everyone Talks, the Machine Listens

What happens when the interface disappears and the machine begins to think with us.

Oct 17, 2025 ·
5 min

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The Voice Is the Person: What Happens When AI Speaks for Us

Voices drawn from archives rather than lungs — and what that does to trust.

Oct 8, 2025 ·
7 min

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Veganism: From Ethical Rebellion to Marketed Diet

It began as a refusal to be complicit in cruelty. It ends, too often, as a logo a company can purchase.

Oct 7, 2025 ·
5 min

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The Truth About MSG

The same molecule sits in Parmesan and in Doritos — but only one address ever had to answer for it. How a 1968 letter became a syndrome named after a cuisine.

Oct 6, 2025 ·
13 min