The writing.

Shouting into the Lake

Why a cell, a child, and a company all stop trying when nothing comes back.

An Intelligence Made Entirely of Maps

What Korzybski knew in 1933 about keeping a map true to its territory.

The Quiet Stranding

Stranded assets, applied to people.

Slavery in the AI Age

Cotton, ledgers, licensed dealers: what made binding a person pay, and what AI does to the same arithmetic.

The Tower I Mistook for a Lighthouse

A watchtower built in 1587 to warn of slave raids, read on holiday.

Intelligence Was Never in the Machine

Plato got there first, with no instrument at all. A developmental biologist is now giving the oldest idea in philosophy physical force.

The AI Industry Is Building Neurons When Organizations Need Synapses

Intelligence lives in connections. Biology, ecology, music, and chemistry agree; most AI strategy does not.

The Shell and the Pearl

On the principle that runs from physics through enterprise AI to the space between two people.

The Science Fiction Writer Who Saw AI

Everyone quotes the founders. A writer from Kraków saw it decades earlier.

Where Do Future Seniors Come From?

The medium solves the knowledge problem. It does not solve this one.

The Thermodynamic Wall

AI's real limit is electricity. What happens when AI starts building its own power supply.

To Those Who Have, More Will Be Given

The Matthew effect of AI augmentation: why the speed of repositioning matters more than capability.

The Right Size of Intelligence

Ant colonies, brains, and failed multi-agent projects point the same way: intelligence is a property of organization, and smarter agents will not make smarter systems.

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Guided Emergence

Coordination without a venue. When agents transact across firms, the rulebook, the operator, and the halt are written into the contracts.

The Oracle Problem Has Been Answered Three Times

Civilisations learned to act on answers they could not inspect. Each time the fix went around the decision and left the oracle alone.

The Emergence Layer

Why AI needs ecosystem design. The most consequential dynamics now arise between autonomous systems, above any one firm's controls.

Human-in-the-Loop Doesn't Survive Volume

The control everyone names and production quietly stops running. Human judgment belongs where the consequence is.

Model Risk When the Model Acts

The revised US model-risk guidance of April 2026 excludes generative and agentic AI from its scope. What replaces it is a check on each decision.

AI Joins the Family

An organization absorbs AI into its existing habits, and the habits decide what AI becomes there.

Spec Is a View

For AI that acts under supervision, the specification is a view. The source of institutional reliance is the governed claim graph beneath it.

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Admissibility

For a defined class of regulated AI work the binding constraint is no longer the model. It is whether the institution may rely on what the model produced.

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Epistemic Immunity: Why Knowledge Graphs Need a Defense Architecture

Knowledge graphs are living systems, and a living system needs an immune function.

Build the Medium

How organizations become intelligent in the age of AI: by building the medium their knowledge lives in.