
· 14 min
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.
- Agents
- AI practice
- Generative media
- Prompting
InsightsTagged
Everything tagged prompting — case studies, briefings and insights together, because the subject cuts across all three.
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· 14 min
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.
Briefing· 12 min
Autocomplete that can look back, decide what mattered, and keep going for paragraphs.
Briefing· 8 min
Prompting stops being command and becomes conversation — one human mind and one statistical one.
Nearby, but not tagged prompting.

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

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

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.

Cinema staged inside the machine rather than in front of it.