Writing

Beneath the surface of technology.

I write about the systems, incentives, and organizational realities that shape whether technology succeeds or fails.

Most of these emerged from building products, leading teams, and watching the same organizational patterns repeat across industries.

Current Work

The Agentic Manifesto

Ten essays on what changes when AI moves from experimentation to adoption — not the technology itself, but the economic, organizational, governance, and human consequences that emerge around it.

Ten-Essay Field Guide · 2026
The Agentic Manifesto
The demo works. The organization isn't ready for it. This series explores the economic, organizational, governance, and human consequences that emerge when capable systems meet organizations that weren't designed for them.
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Foundational Essays

Earlier writing — same lens, different moments.

These pieces span different industries and periods. They're unified by a single question: why does technically sound innovation so often fail to change outcomes?


What Ties This Together

The Common Thread
From decentralization to payments to agentic AI — the conclusion is usually the same: technology rarely changes outcomes by itself. Systems, incentives, and institutions do.

The questions have remained surprisingly consistent over time. The technology changes. The underlying challenges around incentives, coordination, adoption, and organizational behavior tend to repeat.

These essays describe the recurring patterns. The engagements are designed to help organizations navigate them.

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The complete manifesto.

Ten essays exploring what organizations must rethink when capable AI systems become part of how work gets done.

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