Library

No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations X.16, trans. George Long (1862)

I write to get clear on what should be, how I should think about a topic, and what I owe my community. If others find it useful, good. I'd write it anyway, because I have to do it for myself before I can do it for anyone.

Essays (2026)

  • Turned Off By Most Always-On Agents (October 2026). After the AI Hot Summer, the always-on agents come in two kinds, Personal Assistants and AI Employees, and which one fits depends on how you work.
  • The One Brain With a Thousand Hands (July 2026). AI pays off when the whole organization can run a workflow, not when one power user gets faster.
  • Values-Based Operational Decision-Making (May 2026). My Olin MBA capstone as a Koch Center Own-Operate-Invest Fellow: a way to measure how well a company's operations match its stated values, with a human and an AI model scoring side by side.

Case studies, 2021 to 2025

Some of these first ran on my firm's old site, and they read like it: they're about client work, written while it was fresh. They're lightly edited here, with each one's original date.

Earlier writing, 2018 to 2021