Dan Stephens https://danieltstephens.com/ Writing on psychology, AI systems and stewardship by Dan Stephens: the essays, the method behind them, and the systems they describe. en-us Copyright 2026 Dan Stephens Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:16:59 GMT Entity OS: Run Your Companies on Files You Own https://danieltstephens.com/method/entity-os-run-your-companies-on-files-you-own/ https://danieltstephens.com/method/entity-os-run-your-companies-on-files-you-own/ Why I moved my family's companies onto plain text, and what it bought me Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens The Presuppositional LLM Wiki: A Zettelkasten That Knows What It Believes https://danieltstephens.com/method/presuppositional-llm-wiki/ https://danieltstephens.com/method/presuppositional-llm-wiki/ Just-in-time manufacturing for writing, with a quality gate at the loading dock Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens The Delegate-Downwards Ratchet: Fire Your Frontier Model One Task at a Time https://danieltstephens.com/method/the-delegate-downwards-ratchet-fire-your-frontier-model-one-task-at-a-time/ https://danieltstephens.com/method/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 Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens Five Companies Run on Plain Text Files: Entity OS https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/entity-os/ https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/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. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens Counseling Practice Analytics and HIPAA: Why Counts May Cross and Names May Not https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/counts-may-cross-identifiers-may-not/ https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/counts-may-cross-identifiers-may-not/ Three questions I could not answer about my own practice, and the record system that would not let me answer them. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens Reviewing AI Drafts Is the Bottleneck: How I Moved Approval Off My Desk https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/approval-is-the-bottleneck/ https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/approval-is-the-bottleneck/ The machine got faster at drafting. I did not get faster at reading, and I was the only one who could sign. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens One Article Through a Writing Line Built Like a Factory Floor: The Test Run https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/pllmw-as-a-writing-engine/ https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/pllmw-as-a-writing-engine/ 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. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens No Source Gets Used Until Its Review Is Written: A Clinical Knowledge Base https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/pllmw-for-clinical-knowledge/ https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/pllmw-for-clinical-knowledge/ 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. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens One Small Business Dashboard for Five Companies: Why No Product Would Hold Them https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/the-button-that-could-do-anything/ https://danieltstephens.com/ai-work-portfolio/the-button-that-could-do-anything/ Monday and Trello are good tools. Neither of them can put five companies on one page without breaking something. Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens The Steward, the Family, and the Algorithm https://danieltstephens.com/essays/the-steward-the-family-and-the-algorithm/ https://danieltstephens.com/essays/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. Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT Dan Stephens