From the Campfire
This is the personal record. I write here about what I am building, what I have handed to the agents, what I have kept, and what three decades of running technology taught me that still holds. The essays that carry the book's argument are listed at the foot of the page.
October 2026 · Essay
Leaders dive into AI in the middle and get nothing, because they skip the work of knowing what the organization is. Every framework on the market switches on after the decision to build. The starting line every playbook skips, and the work that closes it.
Read →October 2026 · Essay
If you have put artificial intelligence to work in the last two years, somebody promised you an hour back. I would like to know where it went, because I have been looking for mine. Why the time the machine saves you keeps coming back as a leash, and what has to be true before you can leave it alone.
Read →April 2026
I keep everything, in a systems way rather than a hoarder's way. Three decades in enterprise technology taught me that the most expensive thing in any organization is knowledge that walks out the door.
Read →April 2026
Six months earlier I did not have a GitHub account. I did not know what a commit was, and I had never opened a terminal window on purpose.
Read →The essays
The argument of the book runs through eleven essays, each with its explainer video, and most also with a slide deck to download and an audio episode. They live on the sites whose job each one belongs to, and the series page lists them in the order to read them. The Analog Dividend and The Inception Void, above, are the two that belong here.