Writing
Arguments worth
returning to.
Essays on the systems behind changes in technology, work, money and institutions—and what they mean in everyday life.
The Price of Saved Time
How AI productivity is changing who captures the value of professional work and how that work must be measured.
9 min
Where the Cloud Touches the Ground
AI may feel weightless, but its growth increasingly depends on electricity, land, water and infrastructure that must exist somewhere.
10 min
The Workplace Will Move First
Why automation may advance by changing workplaces around machines rather than waiting for machines to become more human.
9 min
The Boundary Was Doing Work
Why opening digital systems changes more than competition. It also redistributes trust, responsibility and risk.
12 min
What Organisations Teach Their Machines
Retrieval systems inherit an institution’s omissions, hierarchies and forgotten decisions.
11 min
The Quiet Work After Approval
Approval is a decision. Adoption is an operating condition that must be deliberately constructed.
10 min
Judgement Is a System
Good judgement is shaped by information, incentives, constraints, escalation paths and feedback.
12 min
Evidence Is an Architecture
What organisations choose to measure determines what they can recognise, justify and govern.
11 min
The Pilot Is Not the Product
Why proving that technology works is only the beginning of making it work in the real world.
13 min