Field Notes / Durable thinking

Ideas for the messy middle.

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

AI as a managed investment

A working example of how an AI initiative moves from interest to evidence, and from evidence to scale.

Where it sits. What wakes it up. What it decides.

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

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

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