Thinking / Writing

Essays on context, agents, meaningful work, and systems that make people more capable.

A small public notebook for the ideas behind the work: production AI, human-centered automation, provenance, complexity, design, and the future of careers.

Watercolor diagram of overlapping context layers feeding a central decision surface, illustrating context as product infrastructure.

May 19, 2025 / 7 min / Systems

The Context Layer Is the Product

Context shapes decisions, creates leverage, and compounds over time. The next durable AI products will treat context as infrastructure, not prompt decoration.

ContextAI systemsKnowledge work

Watercolor sketch of an agent loop with memory, tools, guardrails, and feedback arrows showing what production agents need beyond the demo.

May 02, 2025 / 8 min / Agents

Why Agent Demos Break in Production

Agent demos are optimized for spectacle. Production agents need memory boundaries, verifiable action, recovery paths, and a clear theory of when not to act.

AgentsReliabilityProvenance

Watercolor study of a workspace where the interface fades into the background and the work itself moves to the foreground.

Apr 16, 2025 / 6 min / Product

Designing Tools That Disappear Into the Work

The best tools reduce friction, preserve human taste, and make the work itself more visible than the interface around it.

DesignCraftToolsContext