Writing.
Essays, articles, and short notes on intelligence, power, and the human work that remains.
Bind yourself before ambition speaks
Give a considered decision a way to survive the moment when success makes you impatient.
Practice · Machine Mythology / Open to all
Read the pieceKeep an exit you can use
A choice remains meaningful only while someone can carry it out. Rehearse one essential function beyond its usual system.
Practice · Machine Mythology / Open to all
Read the pieceProtect the unfinished thinker
A manager needs to preserve the work through which a capable colleague is still becoming one.
Practice · Machine Mythology / Open to all
Read the pieceThe voice you should not automate
When your words create an obligation, people need a way to reach the person who means them.
Practice · Machine Mythology / Open to all
Read the pieceWhose future is inside your forecast
A prediction can inherit your ambition without examining it. Make the future you want visible beside the future you expect.
Practice · Machine Mythology / Open to all
Read the pieceCroesus and the confident machine
The oracle gave the king a true answer. He made the mistake.
Machine Mythology · Practice / Open to all
Read the pieceThe first warning was a letter to the editor
Samuel Butler’s “Darwin Among the Machines,” read as a field manual for keeping an apprenticeship alive.
Machine Mythology · Practice / Open to all
Read the pieceThe last signature
Chicago, 2036. The agents have finished the acquisition. All that remains is her signature.
Machine Mythology / Open to all
Read the pieceA conversation
worth having.
For speaking invitations, collaborations, and questions about the work.