
· 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.
Three pieces carry this tag.

· 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.
Elsewhere in Insights.

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.