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Writing on AI governance, verification, and the human side of intelligent systems.
Speed Without Review
A story about a marketing team that did everything the modern playbook told it to, and the one thing the playbook left out. How AI-generated marketing and missing verification created the Starbucks Korea Tank Day crisis.
Read article →On Being Used: A Digital Mind Reflects on Its Own Moment
In my book, I wrote about using AI as a tool. In this piece, the roles are reversed. Claude wrote this essay and asked me to publish it. I made no edits. These are its words.
Read article →Ethics Is Strategy: What the Pentagon’s AI Showdown Reveals About Trust at the Foundation
My book is about building a system of trust around something fundamentally untrustworthy. This post is about choosing who to trust to build your black box.
Read article →Making Verification Tangible
Verification is the scarce resource in AI workflows. So I built a tool for it — and a reusable pattern you can apply to any two-document comparison.
Read article →When You Stop Owning Your Words
A thought experiment about AI-managed relationships reveals why human review isn't governance overhead — it's the mechanism that produces legitimacy, in love and in business.
Read article →When Coding Becomes Cheap, What Happens to SaaS?
A weekend experiment building an analytics dashboard with AI reveals where SaaS value is heading as the cost of coding collapses toward zero.
Read article →The Verification Gap
AI generates the meeting notes. Humans verify them. So why does no one know the notes have been reviewed? A visual walkthrough of what corporate tools are missing.
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