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A weekly newsletter on AI, strategy, and the craft of modern work.

One essay. Every Monday. Written for operators, strategists, and leaders who want sharper thinking about the work actually in front of them. Free to read. Easy to leave.

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• A weekly essay (usually 800 to 1,500 words) grounded in real practice, not recycled takes
• Frameworks you can actually use in a Monday meeting
• Occasional reading picks, reference pieces, and behind-the-scenes notes on the craft

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• Marketing, product, and strategy leaders navigating AI at scale
• Operators translating technology into outcomes inside complex organizations
• Executives who want clear thinking without the consultant-speak
• Practitioners rebuilding their relationship to craft in the AI era

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Recent Essays

The Great Inversion: AI Transforms Scarcity Into Abundance in Work

April 13, 2026

For most of the knowledge economy’s history, the thing that was hard to produce was the thing you got paid to produce. AI collapsed the production cost without touching the expertise behind it. What changed is the scarcity map: production is now abundant, and judgment, taste, and accountability, everything professionals were assumed to already have, are now the expensive part.

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The Smooth Surface of Certainty: What We Lose When AI Removes Doubt

April 6, 2026

The line between prediction and ambiguity is sharper than it looks, and more consequential than we’re treating it. AI is extraordinary at the first. It has no internal experience of the second. But what concerns me most is what happens between them: the smooth surface over a terrain that hasn’t changed at all.

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The Proof of Work Problem

March 30, 2026

Most professionals built their careers on proof-of-work: the polished deck, the sharp analysis, the well-crafted brief. AI didn’t commoditize expertise. It commoditized the evidence of it. When the receipt becomes free, the architecture of professional credibility changes — and the question isn’t whether you have expertise, but whether it’s still legible.

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