Writing.
Essays, articles, and short notes on intelligence, power, and the human work that remains.
A fluent apology is not a remedy
The person affected by an error needs to know what will change after the words are sent.
Practice · Faith / Open to all
Read the pieceA future you do not have to conquer
An unfinished world asks for participation without pretending that you can own its outcome.
Practice · Faith / Open to all
Read the pieceA larger intelligence should make room for you
Connection earns its promise when people become more capable of contributing something distinct.
Practice · Faith · New Concepts / Open to all
Read the pieceBind 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 pieceBuild something that can outgrow you
The future of a worthwhile project depends on other people becoming able to care for its purpose.
Practice · Faith / Open to all
Read the pieceDo not let a summary erase an objection
Before a shorter account becomes authoritative, compare it with one consequential condition in the original. Let the person who supplied it restore the meaning.
Practice · New Concepts / Open to all
Read the pieceGive the person a way to answer back
A system can understand a complaint and still give its author no power to change the outcome.
Practice · Faith · New Concepts / 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 pieceLet the promise survive the handoff
A change of people or systems can quietly end a commitment that others still rely on. Carry the promise with the work, and revise it openly when necessary.
Practice · Faith / Open to all
Read the pieceLet what you learn change your calendar
An insight becomes part of your leadership when it changes what happens next.
Practice · New Concepts / Open to all
Read the pieceMake something the metric cannot imagine
Creativity includes making a new kind of good visible enough that your measures can learn from it.
Practice · New Concepts / 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 pieceReflections at the AI Frontier
On steersmen, soil, and the oldest question in religion, now asked of a machine.
Faith · Frontier · New Concepts · Practice / Open to all
Read the pieceThe courage to disappoint the dashboard
A useful measure becomes dangerous when defending the work requires hiding what it cannot see.
Practice · New Concepts / Open to all
Read the pieceThe good a system gives back
A useful system should help renew the conditions that allow it to keep being useful.
Practice · Faith / Open to all
Read the pieceThe limit that gives your work a shape
A deliberate stopping point can reveal the work you are actually called to do.
Practice · Faith / Open to all
Read the pieceThe machine arrived before the philosophy
Before deciding what AI will do, decide what using it should make possible for people.
Practice · New Concepts · Frontier / Open to all
Read the pieceThe meeting needs an honest dissenter
Inviting disagreement means little if the first person to offer it has to pay for everyone else’s comfort.
Practice · Faith / 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 pieceWhat intelligence leaves out
A useful answer rests on people, materials, and purposes that its score may never show. Bring those conditions into the decision.
Practice · Frontier / 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 pieceWrite a purpose that can refuse a request
A useful statement of purpose changes what your system is allowed to do.
Practice · New Concepts / Open to all
Read the pieceYour values matter when they cost you something
A principle becomes useful when it helps you choose between two things you want.
Practice / Open to all
Read the pieceWho Owns the Value of Intelligence?
Data sovereignty must govern who shares in the value that intelligence creates. The practical work begins in the contract.
Frontier · Practice / Some context helpful
Read the pieceBudget judgment, not intelligence
Organizations are buying machine intelligence by the seat and the token. The real constraint is how many good decisions they can make with it.
Practice / 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 pieceA conversation
worth having.
For speaking invitations, collaborations, and questions about the work.