Older pieces that aged into relevance: the calls I made early, revisited now that the ground has caught up.
Analysis vs recognition
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Your Paradigms, Made Visible: A Mirror for Executives in Software-Dependent Firms
A mirror for executives in software-dependent firms: the paradigm axes your organisation runs on, made visible so you can test them.
Come Prepared to Die: Your Paradigms Were Survivable. AI Makes Them Lethal.
The paradigms most organisations run on were survivable when machines couldn't replace people. AI changes that. The essay that became the book.
An Open Letter to Stephen Wolfram and Spike Jonze
In 2017 I asked two people I admire to build a particular kind of machine. Working with Claude grounded in a 400-reference library, I now use something close to what I was asking for.
What effects will increasing globalization have on America’s knowledge workers?
The question I asked as an undergraduate in 2003, before I had any of the answers, and it has aged into direct relevance. Why factor prices don't equalise, and what that means now.