Essays, field notes, and standing documents
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Writing about AI systems, language, decisions, and the work around them.
- When AI Governance Becomes Real Decision moments under institutional risk
- AI Systems Governance Inspection checklist for decision-holders responsible for the institutional consequences of AI systems.
- The Crossover — AI Iteration Density Theory A conceptual framework explaining how AI-driven iteration density creates a crossover moment where speed, feedback loops, and judgment fundamentally change how thinking, building, and decision-making operate.
- Before the Code Exists, a Decision Is Already Made (field notes)
- Cognitive Leverage Operators: Language as a Control Surface for AI Systems A lexicon of cognitive leverage operators: operative language that changes the geometry of search, breaks local optimization loops, and forces non-incremental moves in human reasoning and AI systems.
- Governance Protocol for AI Under Fiduciary Constraint The System Initialization Specification (SIS) is a governance protocol for AI under fiduciary constraint. It defines authority, constrains behavior, and separates execution from inspection before output is generated.
- Governance Protocol for AI - SIS Code
- You Decided An examination of where decisions actually occur in AI-assisted work, and why responsibility is already settled by the time output appears.
- Jarvis the Peacock A short origin note about Jarvis the Peacock, the character that emerged while developing methods for constraining verbosity, premature neatness, and invalid continuation in AI systems.
- The Honesty Contract A practical operating agreement for working with AI when accuracy, uncertainty, source fidelity, and direct assessment matter more than reassurance or conversational smoothness.