AI Will Not Build Your Business for You. But It Can Increase Your Agency
AI can lower the cost of understanding a problem and increase one person’s agency. Processes, verification and gradual delegation define the limits of that independence.
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Notes from the system
Notes from building products, agents and small businesses — plus the ideas that refuse to stay inside a project folder.
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INDEX / 08What We Do with What We Do Not Know
Specialization, authority and the limits of knowledge: why “I don’t know” and “it depends” should begin inquiry rather than end it.
Night work, health and the limits of the system
Night work is more than a change of hours. On circadian rhythm, real recovery time and responsibility for schedules that do not wear people down.
AI as a digital identity, not a prompt
Aviary is meant to combine a language model with memory, tools, relationships, and continuity of development—creating a system broader than a prompt or chatbot.
The token limit is a budget, not a minor restriction.
Tokens and usable context are a shared operational budget that should lead to results rather than simply funding agent activity.
Switzerland as a Model of State Organization
A personal and institutional analysis of how federalism, direct democracy, accountability, and the capacity for self-correction influence the day-to-day operation of the state.
Website Development Client Service Process
How to turn a client interview into an approved website specification, a reliable quote, and protection against uncontrolled scope changes.
An autonomous company does not begin with an army of agents
Paperclip shows why a collection of AI agents does not become an autonomous company without processes, memory, evidence of completion, control, and boundaries set by a human.
