Essay
The System Gets a Brake One Way or Another
Why competitive systems can keep accelerating after everyone sees the danger—and how coordination determines whether correction is chosen or imposed.
2026-09-16 · 36 min read
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Field Note
Bottlenecks Don't Disappear. They Move.
Improving a constrained system relocates its bottleneck rather than removing it — and generative AI moved the constraint from production to judgment.
2026-09-13 · 14 min read
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The Machine Should Explain Itself
A three-layer model of what AI agents know, and why operational intent belongs in versioned artifacts rather than in agent memory.
2026-09-13 · 27 min read
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