Field Notes / Durable thinking

Ideas for the messy middle.

Not a publishing schedule. Short positions on the machinery between strategy and execution.

Field Note · 2026

Stop automating broken work.

Before asking how AI can do a task faster, ask why the task exists in that form.

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Field Note · 2026

Your tech stack is not an operating model.

Platform architecture can support the way work happens. It should not quietly decide what that way is.

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Field Note · 2026

AI adoption is an operating-model problem.

Distributing licenses or launching agents does not create value until the organization changes how work is done.

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