The Archive
Written slowly, published when finished. Each piece tries to work out one thing properly rather than survey many things badly.
Everyone expected multiplayer agents to arrive as new harness primitives. Instead they arrived by borrowing someone else's room — and a room knows who spoke, but has never had to know who is answerable.
Read the essayJobs gave us the bicycle for the mind. Four decades on, that metaphor has run out of road — because AI does not make us faster at the thinking we already do. It shows us intellectual terrain we could not previously see.
Read the essayThe traditional paradigm of knowledge work — gather, analyse, synthesise — is being taken apart. What replaces it is not automation but orchestration, and it asks for a different kind of practitioner.
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