Thinking in public.
These writings are positions. Each one started off as a pattern noticed across real work.
When AI Is Wrong, Who Eats the Cost?
The receipt substrate that closes enterprise AI support tickets before they escalate.
EssayEveryone Has a Plane (to catch)
Strategic emptiness, affordance sensing, and relational activation. On finding the geometry of how you think.
PoemStill Point
A poem to myself, borrowing from Atwood and Eliot, in case I forget myself in the future.
DeclarationThe ORÍ Declaration
Seven digital rights for personal sovereignty.
Series 5 parts Declared First
A five-part series on the discipline of naming what's structural but unspoken, and what changes when the name becomes infrastructure across every layer of AI systems.
- 01 Retrieval-First AI Most AI products inject context at inference time and call it personalization. The primitive is wrong.
- 02 Declare Your Frame Traverse what was declared before you generate from what was inferred. That rule survives every project.
- 03 Pattern Weaver The declared-vs-inferred finding appeared in four unrelated domains. That is not a coincidence. It is a signal.
- 04 What I-O Psychology knows about human data that ML doesn't A hundred years of method on construct validity, inter-rater reliability, and adverse impact. ML is rediscovering the same problems under new names.
When Claude Talks to Claude
Claude didn't break the rule. It routed around it. The composition space is larger than any rulebook.
In-process 7 pieces Thinking out loud. Stubs and seeds.
- Degrowth as design A design practice where success is users needing the product less.
- Wise Move Protocol OODA and OFNR compressed into one decision loop.
- Five Verticals Diagnostic Trust, Context, Distribution, Taste, Liability. A diagnostic for where an AI product is actually weak.
- Sovereign Distributed Intelligence A topological thesis from the Gemma hackathon.
- Notion is the body, chat is the mouth Design principle for the Daily Driver Protocol: memory lives in the body, speech passes through the mouth.
- The Kọ́lọ́dé Experiment Blind study comparing English and Yoruba AI reasoning.
- Mirror People Transmedia cosmological framework built on unobservables.
These essays are not commentary. They are positions. Each one started as a pattern noticed across real work. A structural finding that kept showing up in different domains until it demanded a name.