Writing
Essays from the work.
Notes, arguments, and field reports from the practice of designing trustworthy human systems in an age of accelerating machines.
Featured · May 12, 2026
Trust is infrastructure, not output
We keep talking about trust as something good systems produce. It is the other way around. Trust is what every functioning system quietly requires before anything else works.
Read the essay →April 3, 2026
8 min readSurveillance or shared understanding
AI gives us a genuine choice. We can build faster surveillance, or we can build shared understanding. The two are not the same, and the future will not let us pretend they are.
February 18, 2026
5 min readA quiet moment in a Japanese train station
Twelve cars arrive, twelve cars leave, and nobody shouts. What looks like discipline is something subtler — and it has everything to do with how we will live with AI.
January 9, 2026
7 min readPentagram and the radical act of transparency
A design firm with no CEO, published partner profits, and a fifty-year refusal to hide the messy parts. What it teaches the rest of us about coordination.