people first
The Wrong Instrument
Benjamin Franklin was scolding a young tradesman about wasted afternoons. We turned it into a way to price surgeons and architects. The billable hour is barely fifty years old, and nobody chose it.
artificial intelligence
people first
Ten Percent of What?
Someone offers you a slice of their someday company if you build the whole thing now. It sounds generous. The math tells another story, and so do two thousand years of people arguing about the price of work no one can see.
expert generalist
The Inverted T
The world keeps two words in separate rooms and calls you one or the other, never both. It has the geometry exactly upside down, and a machine is about to prove it.
artificial intelligence
The Emotion of Intention
The rush to AI came before the strategy. Underneath the chaos lies one principle that will never change: the emotion of intention is the soul of every meaningful work.
technology
Luddites Lose
Every generation has its Luddites. Every generation is wrong. The craft always survives. It just doesn't wait for permission.
artificial intelligence
Upstream
You are never the only human in the loop. Every tool carries the values of the people who built it. Their priorities, their culture, and their blind spots are shaping your outputs before you type a single word.
artificial intelligence
Human in the Loop
AI produces outputs. Humans produce outcomes. The gap between them is judgment and intent. The human in the loop exists because the work requires someone who understands what the desired outcome is. That someone is you.