Automated Household ✦ Series
AI Loves a Pancake: Why Good AI Should Not Flatten Complex Work
Flat. Neat. Easy to consume. Missing several load-bearing ingredients.
Idea World
Automated Household
Care loops, invisible work, and a home that knows how to recover. The machine carries the repetition; the humans carry the meaning.
All essays in Automated Household
7 essays
Automated Household ✦ Series
Unnamed Work Becomes Weather
It just happens. People feel it. People plan around it. Nobody owns it.
Automated Household ✦ Series
Invisible Work Is Still Work, and AI Can Help Reveal It
Remembering is work. Noticing is work. It is just badly marketed.
Automated Household ✦ Series
AI Is Best at the Work Before the Work
By the time you start the real work, half your energy has already been mugged in the parking lot.
Automated Household ✦ Series
Reminders Are Not Systems: Building AI Rhythms That Actually Work
You have to perform for reminders. You get to live in a system.
Automated Household ✦ Series
Most Knowledge Work Is Recurring Work Pretending to Be One-Off
I have been the human copy-paste bridge. The bridge is tired.
Automated Household ✦ Series
The Task Is Never the Task: AI and Hidden Workflows
Ask AI for a grocery list, and it will reveal the operating system underneath your life.
Letters from the Desk
One good letter, every couple of weeks.
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