Late one Sunday in August, I was reading Dave Winer. He had been watching The Pitt and liking it for a simple reason: the show behaves like a simulated community. You come to know the …
The COBOL Problem
Databases hold information. They do not pass it on. The institution still has a working store. The people who could explain what the records mean are leaving, or already gone. What sits in the …
Metabolism Management
The first honest AI governance move isn't regulating models. It's an institution admitting it can't yet measure what it's absorbing. Adoption announcements are easy. Absorption meters are rare. …
Coordination Debt
Organizations accrue coordination debt when AI tools multiply handoffs faster than anyone redesigns who decides what happens next. The familiar complaint sounds like a pace problem. Everyone feels …
Negative Knowledge
Deletion without annotation is the actual failure. Most knowledge systems treat retirement as cleanup; the audit trail of how conclusions changed is a qualification, not clutter. In Knowledge …
Agent Sprawl as an Organizational Risk
Every team can deploy an agent in an afternoon. Almost no organization can tell you how many are running, what systems they touch, or who owns the judgment when they act. In May, the Wall Street …
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