Mental Models for the AI Economy
Practical essays on how AI actually changes work, product, and business economics — not hype, not fear.
Field notes on AI, product, and the economics underneath.
Essays, field guides, and interactive decks on what actually changes in knowledge work as AI gets cheaper, faster, and more embedded — and what stays exactly the same.
- Future of Work
Faster With AI, Fried by It: The Hidden Cost of Parallel Agents
Running agents in parallel turns a workday into constant context switches. What the research on attention residue says, Cole Medin’s way out, and the operating rules I use as a one-person team.
October 22, 202613 min read · interactiveRead - Future of Work
The Tower of Hanoi Is the Best Lesson in Delegation I Know
Recursion is delegation with a contract: you solve n discs only by trusting a sub-call with n − 1. What that teaches about briefing AI agents and teams, with five interactive exhibits.
October 18, 202611 min read · interactiveRead - Future of Work
More Agents. One Person Who Signs Off.
Leaders are using AI more often, but adoption is not ability. As execution accelerates, accepted work—not generated output—becomes the real productivity measure.
October 10, 20268 min read · interactiveRead - Future of Work
From Content Writer to Website Operator
Claude Code changes the boundary of a writing job: from handing over a document to owning a governed website pipeline. The opportunity, the workflow, and the limits.
September 26, 20267 min read · interactiveRead - Future of Work
Content Credentials: Provenance Is Not Truth
C2PA can document where an asset came from. It cannot prove the scene happened. Explore the emerging trust infrastructure of the synthetic web.
September 18, 20267 min read · interactiveRead - Future of Work
Automate the Thirty
Every role breaks down the same way: mostly rules, a little judgment. AI doesn't come for the judgment. It comes for the thirty things you were never actually hired to do.
May 23, 20264 min readRead - Future of Work
Your AI Just Quoted a Client a Price. Can You Actually Deliver It?
Every CEO wants faster proposals. Almost nobody's asking the scarier question: does the AI writing them have any idea what your business can actually pull off?
May 21, 20265 min readRead - Future of Work
Autopilot Didn't Replace Pilots. AI Won't Replace Professionals.
Modern commercial flights spend most of their cruise time under autopilot. So why does every cockpit still carry two highly trained pilots? The answer explains exactly what AI is about to do to knowledge work.
May 14, 20265 min readRead - Future of Work
AI Isn't Artificial Intelligence. It's a Bicycle for the Mind.
Steve Jobs once described humans as a mediocre species on foot — until a bicycle made us the most efficient species on Earth. AI is the same kind of tool. But it also comes with an economic twist software has never had before.
May 11, 20267 min readRead
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