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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. Featured essay series

Essays

Painting of a man shining a flashlight into the mouth of a dark cave under a starry night sky.

Before the First Screen Product Schema Mapping is a product discovery method that extends user story mapping below actions, into the questions users must answer and the information they need to answer them. The output is a product schema — the shape of the problem a product must serve. Essay

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. Essay Series

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. Essay Series