Notes
Short essays on what I'm working on.
Working drafts that sit between a blog post and a memo. Each note is the argument I would make to a colleague who asks me, in the corridor, why a particular design decision matters.
Notes
Applied AI
Why eight agents, and not one chatbot.
The single-chatbot pattern fails the specific tests an accounting policy team puts a junior member through. Eight agents pass three of them.
AI GovernanceGovernance is the road, not the speed bump.
The most common failure mode in regulated AI adoption is treating governance as friction. The framing flip that makes it work.
Economic HistoryEmergency money and counter-money, 1967–1970.
What happens to a currency when the issuing authority's territorial control is contested? A research project page.