Writing
Essays
Field notes from the edge of applied AI. Four bodies of work: why machines mirror us, building a world from scratch, shipping enterprise AI, and the systems I want to exist.
- not so artificial
- chronos
- field notes
- architecture
- concept
Two lobes, one mind. Hover a concept to watch it fire. Click an essay to read it.
Series
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Not So Artificial Large language models are not alien minds. They are mirrors, built in our image, and they break in the same places we do. -
Chronos A universe small enough to fit on my laptop, and strict enough to surprise me. One rule: I design the physics, and I never tell the creatures what to do. -
Field Notes What it actually takes to ship enterprise AI: the orchestration, the process, and the unglamorous plumbing that decides whether a model ever earns its keep. -
Architecture Longer-form blueprints. The systems I want to exist, written down with enough rigor to build from. -
Case Studies Real deployments, real numbers. What we actually built, who it was for, and what changed once it shipped. -
Loose Threads Half-formed ideas I keep pulling at: consciousness, time, the strangeness of quantum mechanics, the shape of mind. Provocations, not proofs. -
In Easy Words AI concepts, explained in plain business language. No jargon, no math, just clear answers a practitioner can use on Monday morning.
Latest
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14 min read
$1M for Americans, $1,200 for You. They Called It Good.
A flagship AI policy scenario routes the wealth of the whole planet back to one country, pays its citizens a million dollars a year for being born there, and hands everyone else $1,200. It is intelligence colonialism, and its authors call it the good plan.
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9 min read
Europe Is Running on Rented Intelligence
Beijing is moving to wall off its best AI models. The open era is closing, and Europe's real choice is now to build its own intelligence or keep renting its sovereignty.
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4 min read · Field Notes
The AI-First Company Needed a Stand-Up
I built a knowledge system with an answer for almost everything. The thing that broke wasn't the system. It was the meetings. A good memory compounds; it does not automatically keep a team talking to each other, and the gap only shows up after it costs you something.
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6 min read · Field Notes
The AI-First Company
An AI-first company is not one that bought AI tools. It is one that rebuilt its org chart so an agent is the default operator of a process and a human owns the judgment call. Here is what actually changes, because I changed it in my own company first.
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3 min read · Not So Artificial
The Science Behind the Mirror
Not So Artificial is sci-pop, not a research paper. But the claims are not made up. Here is where each one comes from: attention, confabulation, vectors, motivation, and agent societies.
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3 min read · Not So Artificial
The Shape of the Partnership
A prompt is 'write me a marketing email.' A brief is everything a trusted colleague would need. The gap between them is the gap between output and thinking. Part 7 of Not So Artificial.
Every essay lives in one of the series above. Pick a thread and read it in order.