Essays
Everything here, newest first.
10 pieces. The difference between them is the subject, not the kind of thing they are. Where an essay is about something I built, the thing itself comes with it, so it can be taken away and run rather than taken on trust.
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Entity OS: Run Your Companies on Files You Own
Why I moved my family's companies onto plain text, and what it bought me
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The Presuppositional LLM Wiki: A Zettelkasten That Knows What It Believes
Just-in-time manufacturing for writing, with a quality gate at the loading dock
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The Delegate-Downwards Ratchet: Fire Your Frontier Model One Task at a Time
A protocol for migrating recurring agent work down to cheaper models, and finally to scripts, on evidence, not vibes
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Five Companies Run on Plain Text Files: Entity OS
Every corporate book has the same ingredients. I could not afford to have mine cleaned up, so I worked out how to keep them myself.
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Counseling Practice Analytics and HIPAA: Why Counts May Cross and Names May Not
Three questions I could not answer about my own practice, and the record system that would not let me answer them.
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Reviewing AI Drafts Is the Bottleneck: How I Moved Approval Off My Desk
The machine got faster at drafting. I did not get faster at reading, and I was the only one who could sign.
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One Article Through a Writing Line Built Like a Factory Floor: The Test Run
Research pulled when a paragraph needs it, with the inspections built into the line rather than bolted on after. One article has been through it, as a test that the line worked.
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No Source Gets Used Until Its Review Is Written: A Clinical Knowledge Base
Neutrality is a myth. Everyone has presuppositions. So every source that comes in gets read, written up and weighted before anything is taken from it.
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One Small Business Dashboard for Five Companies: Why No Product Would Hold Them
Monday and Trello are good tools. Neither of them can put five companies on one page without breaking something.
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The Steward, the Family, and the Algorithm
A busy father refuses the choice between his family and his calling, and explains how he writes with AI as a cognitive exoskeleton, in the open.
