The Detector Retires the Competence
The list of things your team must know is not a property of your domain — it is a variable you control.
Your Own Cartographer
Generation got cheap. Verification did not. For the first time the instruments to survey your own way of working are affordable — and the map you draw will be valid only for your own coast.
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Day Ten Should Not Look Like Day One
A working manual for the layer below the framework: context, memory, skills, runbooks, and the habits that make agent work compound.
On Changing the World One Room at a Time
On "not my problem," and what happens when you drop the first word.
On the Last Human Sports: An Erratum on Flirting
A correction to the codex. The management regrets nothing.
Everyday Heroes
Working notes for a column.
The Jacuzzi Fallacy
"It was worth it because of this nice thing that fell out of it" is not an argument. It's the receipt for a purchase you never compared.