Writing

Notes and essays.

Writing on systems, product work, and how structure changes outcomes.

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Retro-futurist painting of families on a flowered hillside looking toward a gleaming spired city under a sunburst sky.
Part 3 A Future Worth Wanting The hopeful vision for the AI age is not mass idleness or elite abundance. It is a society with more dignity, more ownership, more time, and more room for human beings to be human.

Essays

Painting of a man shining a flashlight into the mouth of a dark cave under a starry night sky.
Before the First Screen Why design should begin with the questions people are trying to answer.
Retro-futurist illustration of a woman and a robot at a control console, looking out at a green terraformed world floating in space.
Part 1 The Transition Is Not the Destination AI is a general-purpose coordination technology. When coordination becomes cheap, the structures built around expensive coordination begin to wobble.
Retro-futurist illustration of a city of elevated saucer-shaped buildings with air taxis, busy roads, and a fountain plaza below.
Part 2 What AI Makes Buildable Cheap intelligence does not just automate tasks. It changes which organizations and systems are feasible.