· 8 min
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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Briefings
Brought to you before you need it. Undated on purpose — these answer questions that don't expire.
Five briefings.
· 6 min
The Quiet Move Beyond Copper
A quiet inversion in computing — the network stops being a necessary inconvenience.
· 12 min
How Chatbots Actually Write (Without the Math)
Autocomplete that can look back, decide what mattered, and keep going for paragraphs.
· 8 min
The Art of Prompting as Dialogue
Prompting stops being command and becomes conversation — one human mind and one statistical one.
· 7 min
From Pixels to Possibility: The Origins of Generative Media
Gutenberg’s press looked ordinary too. The case for calling this a printing-press moment, and the case against.
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Not briefings — but close to what these are about.
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.
Synthetic Cinema: When AI Makes Movies
Cinema staged inside the machine rather than in front of it.
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.
Democratization or Displacement? The Double Edge of AI Art
When a sentence can conjure a picture, the question stops being whether it’s possible and becomes whether it still means anything.