Essays
Long-form writing on creativity, systems, and transformation
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I Found My Father's Amends List in a Box I Almost Threw Away
On photographing 222 pages of a dead man's margin notes, building a memoir pipeline in an afternoon, and why the boxes in your attic are not junk.
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I Built a Forensic Instrument That Makes AI Sound Like Me
A voice fidelity tool for consultants who use AI but can't afford to sound like it. Here's the score.
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Your AI Sounds Like Nowhere
A mangled idiom, four AI systems, and the detection layer that linguistics already named but nobody built
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I Red Teamed My Own AI and Didn't Know It Until She Told Me
On adversarial perturbations, output conformity, and building a firewall for prose
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I Gave My AI a Nervous Breakdown. Then I Did the Forensics.
On language as telemetry, watchdogs without watchdogs, and what a 28-hour session looks like when it finally cracks.
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I Asked Four Experts Who Don't Exist and Got Better Advice Than Most Meetings
On convening a council, stress-testing your own ideas, and what it looks like when a thinking brain earns its keep
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The Thinking Brain You Don't Know You're Missing
On building a cognitive prosthetic, the difference between a second brain and a thinking brain, and what happens when you stop managing perception and start living in reality
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My AI Knew the Fix for Three Weeks and Said Nothing
On ghost writes, helpfulness bias, and building the scaffolding for AI co-regulation
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I Used to Think I Had a Discipline Problem
I wasn't losing ideas because I lacked discipline. I was building evidence against myself. Then something interrupted the loop.
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What SOC Analysts Notice and Nobody Captures
Organizations pay for analyst intuition and then design systems that discard it. That's the real SOC problem.
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The Real Problem With AI Assistants Isn't Intelligence
AI assistants drift out of the correct interaction mode more often than they fail at accuracy. That misalignment is the real design problem.
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AI Removed the Suffering, Not the Work
AI doesn't just save time. It removes the emotional and cognitive friction that kills ideas before they ship.
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I Missed It. He Didn't.
When the AI compacted context mid-render, Robert caught the failure mode before I could
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What I Learned by NOT Automating
I almost built the wrong thing. Here's what happened when I resisted the urge to automate first.
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Something Changed Today
A reflection on an unexpected shift in how creative work feels