Governance & AI ✦ Series
My AI Maturity Ladder: From Chat to Choreography
Six rungs from chat to choreography — and why results feel inconsistent at rung three.
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Practical AI
25 essays
Governance & AI ✦ Series
Prompting Is Not the Endgame of AI
Prompting is asking better questions. Choreography is designing how intelligence moves.
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.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
AI Productivity Is Too Vague. Show the Burden Removed.
Not vague productivity. Specific relief with receipts.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
Turn AI Output Into Infrastructure
AI compounds when it helps create the thing that helps create future things.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
Chat Is the Workshop, Not the Warehouse
A lot of AI value dies in the scroll swamp, where good ideas go to be vaguely remembered.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
Good AI Should Leave You With Something Usable
The answer helps once. The artifact helps again.
Automated Household ✦ Series
Unnamed Work Becomes Weather
It just happens. People feel it. People plan around it. Nobody owns it.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
AI Ecosystems Beat AI Assistants
An assistant helps with a task. An ecosystem supports a pattern of work.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
Not Every AI Should Be the Same AI
Human teams have roles for a reason. AI needs the same distinction.
Leadership & Aliveness ✦ Series
Margin Is the Metric for Useful AI
Speed without margin is just burnout with better tooling.
Leadership & Aliveness ✦ Series
Automation Should Not Eat the Human
When automation develops its own administrative ecosystem, it has started charging rent.
Leadership & Aliveness ✦ Series
AI Should Protect Aliveness, Not Just Increase Output
The point of AI is not to become a more efficient toaster.
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.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
Set It and Forget It Is a Trap in AI Automation
“Set it and forget it” is how rot gets a login. The better model is rhythm.
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.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
How Small AI Requests Become Repeatable Workflows
Be suspicious of small requests. Many of them are secretly recurring workflows.
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.
Quest Layer ✦ Series
Why Metaphor Matters in AI System Design
The right metaphor isn't decoration. It's how you know what you are building.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
When to Use a Broad AI Prompt and When to Get Specific
“Just help with this” is a creativity engine. It is not a system.
Governance & AI ✦ Series
The Problem With One Giant AI Assistant
One AI for everything eventually becomes a very articulate junk drawer.
Governance & AI
The AI Moment Is Now — Are You Navigating It or Reacting to It?
The organizations that will thrive aren't the ones moving fastest. They're the ones moving wisest.
Governance & AI
How to Talk About AI Without the Hype (Or the Panic)
Most public conversation about AI swings between utopia and apocalypse. There's a better way.