The most reliable AI systems are not built on better prompts alone; they are built on knowledge that has been structured, bounded, tested, traced, and made accountable to human …
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Knowledge Priming: The Attention Budget
Knowledge as code fails in production when the files exist but the agent still ships the average of the internet. In Knowledge as Code, I argued for the file: institutional memory that …
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Coordination Debt
Organizations accrue coordination debt when AI tools multiply handoffs faster than anyone redesigns who decides what happens next. The familiar complaint sounds like a pace problem. Everyone feels …
Agent Sprawl as an Organizational Risk
Every team can deploy an agent in an afternoon. Almost no organization can tell you how many are running, what systems they touch, or who owns the judgment when they act. In May, the Wall Street …
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When Your Complement Becomes Your Competitor
The complement doesn't announce when it becomes a competitor. Your team does. The signal is the silence in the room when someone finishes calculating. Most professionals track AI capability the way …
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The Long Middle
The experienced professional has spent decades accumulating exactly what the AI era demands: the compound of procedural mastery, perspectival depth, participatory knowledge, and perceptual acuity that …