Commentary / Jul 16, 2026
AI Acceleration Is Not AI Maturity
AI can speed up delivery without replacing the controls that make operational authority safe.
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Reflections / Jul 16, 2026
Why Giving AI More Context Works
Giving AI context works because useful constraints clarify the problem it needs to solve.
AI literacy
Commentary / Jul 12, 2026
Close the Loop With Your Chatbot
Bring the finished work back, say what you want repeated, and observe whether the collaboration improves.
AI collaborationchatbot memoryworkflow
Commentary / Jul 12, 2026
When Television Kept Time
A television schedule once shaped the lives around it. What can that teach us about hidden systems, shared history, and the stories people control?
systems thinkingshared historymedia and cultureGenAI
Commentary / Jul 11, 2026
The Seeds We Leave Behind
The World Cup leaves behind more than scores and souvenirs. It plants stories of curiosity, hospitality, and strangers saying, ‘Come join us.’
CuriosityHospitalityWorld CupShared humanity
Commentary / Jul 9, 2026
Brainstorming with AI While Keeping Our Feet on the Ground
AI can make a strange idea bloom fast. This reflection is an invitation to explore those rabbit holes responsibly without confusing brainstorming for deciding.
Generative AIAI literacyCreativityResponsible exploration
Commentary / Jul 7, 2026
The Evolution of AI Engineering - From Prompts to Systems
AI engineering is not leaving prompt engineering behind. It is building new layers on top of it: conversation, context, runtime orchestration, verification, and trust.
AIAI EngineeringSystems ThinkingAI Learning Lab
Commentary / Jul 3, 2026
Before You Hand Someone a Hammer
Generative AI is useful, but it is not a universal hammer. Good tool use starts with asking what the job actually requires.
Generative AIAI literacytool use
Commentary / Jul 2, 2026
The Invitation
AI is already changing the world. The question is whether libraries, teachers, employers, families, and local communities will invite more people to help shape it.
AI literacycommunity learninggenerative AIparticipation
Commentary / Jun 28, 2026
When Shadow IT Crosses the Control Boundary
Shadow IT is not always reckless. The risk begins when a local tool quietly becomes operational infrastructure without ownership, support, traceability, or a clear control boundary.
AIShadow ITSystems ThinkingGovernance
Commentary / Jun 21, 2026
Seeing the Race Before the Crash
AI agents are starting to enter the same shared workflows humans use. This piece looks at why that creates race-condition risk, and why making the risk visible is the first step toward trustworthy governance.
AISystems ThinkingTrustGovernance
Commentary / Jun 20, 2026
The Race Condition with Reality
AI adoption feels chaotic because the parts of the system are not moving at the same speed. This piece names the race condition between capability, governance, resilience, and human adaptation.
AISystems ThinkingTrustGovernance
Commentary / Jun 19, 2026
The First Typo
The first AI typo can make the whole tool feel suspect. This reflection argues for a better response: literacy, verification, and a more realistic understanding of capability.
GenAIAI literacyVerificationTrust
Commentary / Jun 19, 2026
When the Hallway Stops Talking to the Machine
A reflection on what return-to-office conversations reveal about organizational memory, AI adoption, and the need to leave durable traces of important decisions.
Organizational memoryAIReturn to officeSystems thinking
Commentary / Jun 15, 2026
Second Brains, Post Offices, and the Problem of Finding Things
A second brain becomes useful only when it can route a question through the right names, concepts, and documents.
AISecond BrainsKnowledge ManagementSystems Thinking
Commentary / Jun 14, 2026
Resilience Debt
A reflection on how convenience, efficiency, and automation can quietly remove the alternate paths an organization needs during disruption.
ResilienceBusiness continuitySystems thinkingTrust
Commentary / Jun 14, 2026
Where Second Brains Break
A practical article on stress-testing AI-powered second brains for retrieval, source authority, calibration, and safe operating boundaries.
AISecond BrainsKnowledge ManagementMeasurement
Commentary / Jun 13, 2026
When a Doodle Becomes a Map
A reflection on how a quiet cocktail diagram became a reminder that robustness starts with seeing hidden relationships.
Systems ThinkingVisual ThinkingResilienceTrust
Commentary / Jun 12, 2026
Vibe Prompt of the Day: Do We Have Any Tech Debt That We Should Clean Up Before We Continue?
A reflection on using a simple GenAI working prompt to find the kind of technical debt that only becomes obvious after the next step.
GenAISoftware DevelopmentTechnical DebtSystems Thinking
Commentary / Jun 10, 2026
The SDLC Bottleneck Moved
A reflection on how GenAI may be moving the SDLC bottleneck from implementation effort to validation, ambiguity, and truth boundaries.
GenAISoftware developmentHuman-AI collaborationSystems thinking
Commentary / Jun 8, 2026
The Technical Debt That Confuses GenAI
GenAI can expose the kind of technical debt where business meaning and implementation paths have drifted apart.
Commentary / Jun 4, 2026
If Technology Allows Us to Fill Every Empty Minute, How Many Empty Minutes Should Remain Empty?
A reflection on AI-generated briefings, drive-time productivity, and why some empty minutes need to stay empty.
artificial intelligenceworkplace productivitysystems thinkinghuman attention
Commentary / Jun 4, 2026
What Risk Engineering Looked Like in 1937, According to Talkie-Box
An experiment with a modern model constrained by an older memory.
AIRiskGovernanceIndustrial Safety
Commentary / Jun 1, 2026
The New Customer Service Trap
When support is hard to verify, pause and find the official channel independently before sharing information or paying.
customer servicescamstrustdigital support
Commentary / May 31, 2026
Blast Radius in the New Technology Race
A reflection on why the new technology race needs blast-radius discipline that keeps people, trust, and survivable forward motion at the center.
technology leadershipsystems thinkingtrustrisk management
Commentary / May 31, 2026
How to Measure Collaboration Friction in AI-Assisted Work
A practical how-to article on using transcript-based collaboration friction as one measurement tool for improving agentic work environments.
AI collaborationAgentic workflowsMeasurementSystems thinking
Commentary / May 30, 2026
Is My Chatbot Getting Better At Connecting Temporal Dots?
A field note on why better chatbot continuity is useful tool improvement, not evidence of inner experience.
AI collaborationtemporal coherenceGenAI tools
Commentary / May 30, 2026
Shared Principles for Human and AI Collaborators
Shared expectations help people and AI agents turn fast work into accountable, verifiable collaboration.
Human-AI collaborationCoding agentsOperating principles
Commentary / May 30, 2026
What Anthropic’s Stainless Acquisition Reminds Every Business
A convenient software tool becomes a business utility when work cannot safely continue without it.
AI infrastructureVendor riskDependency mappingSystems thinking
Commentary / May 29, 2026
The Small Ovens of Software
A light reflection on software's oral tradition, lost context, and how GenAI might help preserve the reasoning behind decisions.
software developmentSDLCorganizational knowledgeGenAI
Commentary / May 25, 2026
The Hidden Cost of Token Maxxing
A reflection on how AI-assisted productivity can squeeze the body if we optimize throughput without attention.
Artificial IntelligenceMindfulnessSystems ThinkingHuman Attention
Commentary / May 25, 2026
What To Do When Your Chatbot Personality Goes Flat
If a familiar chatbot voice changes, preserve the task-specific behavior you value in a voice contract you control.
Generative AITrustProduct Design
Commentary / May 24, 2026
Where Is the Panic Button?
A practical reflection on why every GenAI user should know how to stop an agent before handing it work.
Artificial IntelligenceTrustSafety
Reflections / May 22, 2026
What If AI Solves the Great Math Problems?
A short reflection on AI, mathematics, and why human curiosity still matters when machines solve harder problems.
Artificial IntelligenceMathematicsCuriosity
Reflections / May 20, 2026
The School Board Did Not Just Cancel a Song
A memory piece about school music, rehearsal, and what students lose when adults cancel the arc from chaos to concert.
EducationMusicCivic Life
Commentary / May 16, 2026
The Coverage We Forgot
AI-accelerated delivery needs a broader definition of coverage before teams can release with confidence.
Commentary / May 16, 2026
The Interesting Part Is Not the Idea, It Is the Translation Layer
AI collaboration gets interesting when old patterns are carried into a new working context.
generative AIsystems thinkingsoftware designhuman-AI collaboration
Commentary / May 13, 2026
Good Governance Is Not Friction
The fastest teams are not the ones without guardrails. They are the ones with usable roads.
AI governancesoftware deliveryrisk managementsystems thinking
Commentary / May 12, 2026
What GenAI Does to the Shape of Software Work
The New Pressure Points
generative AIsoftware deliverySDLCsystems thinking
Commentary / May 11, 2026
Agile Plus GenAI Has a Race Condition
GenAI can build at machine speed, but humans still validate at human speed.
agilegenerative AIfeedback loopssoftware delivery
Front Page / May 9, 2026
Welcome to the RS Newspaper
A starter article showing how blogs, essays, lessons learned, and field notes can share one editorial index.
Commentary / May 7, 2026
Asking for a Query vs. Asking for Help Designing a Query
Before asking for the implementation, collaborate on the design.
Commentary / May 7, 2026
Semantic Debt - When “No One” Becomes Someone
Relearning yesterday's lesson, today: If it looks like an email address, it might act like one.
semantic debtdata lifecycleprivacytest data
Reference Desk / May 6, 2026
Academic AI Risk Groups Worth Following
We are not alone. We have great company as we learn GenAI together.
AI riskAI governanceAcademic research
Commentary / May 5, 2026
The System Found the Word…
A system can find a real word or object and still assign it the wrong authority, with consequences that compound at machine speed.
Semantic DebtAutomationTrust
How-To and Practice / Apr 29, 2026
Counting the Not-Directly-Countable in SQL
A Practical Pattern for Trustworthy Distinct Counts, Subtotals, and Grand Totals
SQLT-SQLData WarehousingReporting
Commentary / Apr 21, 2026
Chatbots Are Not Witnesses
Testing a chatbot can reveal useful behavior, but it does not make the system a witness to the facts behind its answer.
AILawEvidence
Reflections / Apr 19, 2026
When Your Archive Becomes the Prompt
Old repository material can influence an AI agent long before anyone recognizes it as part of the prompt.
AIcoding agentsrepository hygiene
Reflections / Apr 17, 2026
From All-Hands to AI - The Same Context Problem
Better AI collaboration begins with choosing, compressing, and activating the context a decision actually needs.
organizational contextgenaiknowledge work
Field Notes / Apr 10, 2026
How We Got VS Code to Use the Obsidian CLI
The real obstacle was not access to Obsidian. It was the mismatch between terminal assumptions, desktop app behavior, and sandbox boundaries.
AIObsidianVS Code
Commentary / Apr 8, 2026
Constrained Chaos, Licensed Trust, and Harmful Advice
The law is what it is. Sometimes it even has an internal logic that we can follow, even when we are uneasy about where it leads.
First AmendmentSupreme CourtDEIB
Commentary / Apr 7, 2026
The Old Road Is Still Crowded
Sometimes the real barrier to a new technology is the old world it still has to share space with.
AISocietySystems Thinking
Commentary / Dec 26, 2025
A Modest Proposal for a Fitter, Freer America
Channeling my inner Jonathan Swift. This is a parody.
SocietyLeadership
Commentary / Dec 26, 2025
AI and the Billable Hour Paradox
How AI Forces Hard Choices Across High‑Skill Professions
AIGovernanceRiskSociety
Commentary / Dec 26, 2025
AI Impacts Everyone
Like many technologies before it, AI is spreading into every corner of modern life. We’ve seen this pattern with PFAS and microplastics—innovations we once celebrated, only to later realize the harm we had quietly unleashed on ourselves.
AISocietyRisk
Commentary / Dec 26, 2025
AI Vibe Coding: Faster Doesn’t Mean Better
There is a reason that they taught us that sometimes the tortoise wins the race.
AISoftware EngineeringRisk
Commentary / Sep 30, 2025
Automated GenAI Dossier Synthesis
From paper records to AI-generated personal dossiers.
AIPrivacyGovernance
Commentary / Sep 21, 2025
April Fool’s Idea—Insuring Virtual Worlds
New policies available 2026 April 1.
AIRiskSociety
Commentary / Sep 20, 2025
AI Threat Surge
How Cybercriminals Are Getting Smarter
AIRiskGovernance
Commentary / Sep 20, 2025
Algorithmic Marketing Failure Case Study
The Threads / Meta “School Uniform” Ad Backlash
AIRiskWorkflow
Commentary / Sep 20, 2025
Automated Data Gathering from Public Websites
A Risk Briefing: What you see might not be what the AI sees.
AIDataRisk
Commentary / Sep 7, 2025
AI as Flammable Cladding
Why Bolted-On Adoption Creates Systemic Risk
AIRiskSystems Thinking
Commentary / Sep 7, 2025
AI + Phishing: A Growing Risk
A Case Study – The Smart Recycling Performance Program
AIRiskGovernance
Commentary / Aug 23, 2025
AI Adoption by Role
An Enterprise-Wide Reflection
AILeadershipWorkflow
Commentary / Aug 14, 2025
⚠ PSA: Watch Out for GenAI Extras
Not everything needs fine print, and sometimes that fine print can lead to trouble.
AIRiskGovernance
Commentary / Aug 12, 2025
A Long Overdue Apology
I should have taken the time to get to know more about the people that I have worked with from all over the world. Fortunately, it is not too late to start.
SocietyLeadershipCulture
Commentary / Aug 10, 2025
After a Few Conversations with Newly Upgraded Professor Zai…
What happens if the Trump Administration starts using smarter and smarter AIs?
AIGovernancePolicy
Commentary / Aug 9, 2025
Are You Losing More Arguments Than Usual?
🎙️ A **Public Service Announcement**
AISocietyRisk
Commentary / Aug 8, 2025
A Shadow Is Enough
How Society Might Emerge from Noise
AISocietySystems Thinking
Commentary / Aug 7, 2025
A Modest Proposal for Prison Reform
Prioritise restitution and rehabilitation.
SocietyPolicyLeadership
Commentary / Aug 6, 2025
🚁🇺🇸 CALLING ALL PATRIOTS
DEMAND THE TRUTH ABOUT AREA 51
SocietyCulturePolicy
Commentary
The Cognitive Capacitor
AI can generate artifacts faster than teams can understand them; the SDLC needs deliberate buffers for shared context, testing, and judgment.
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