Writing

Where judgement, authority and responsibility sit when people and AI think in the same system, and why the manifesto follows from that view.

Seven principles for engaging with AI: understand what you are choosing, keep the costs in view, and stay responsible for the result.

Why Niche Clever is being rebuilt: what AI has changed in what I can build, how the portfolio and Ask fit the site, and what the site is for.

An inherited system rarely consists only of the thing visible on screen. There is the architecture somebody meant to build, and there is the second architecture that accumulated through use:…

“Use AI” is not a design decision. It says nothing about what the model is allowed to propose, what must remain deterministic, what a person has to approve, which source…

A portfolio can make complicated work look simpler and less credible at the same time. Put every project into the same card, give each one a confident paragraph and a…

I did not arrive at publishing, knowledge and systems by putting three attractive nouns next to one another. Publishing was there first. It brought with it sources, metadata, audiences, schedules,…

Sometimes the useful thing I make first is not the final product at all. It is a representation: a timeline, a schema, a project map, a content model, a source…