Essays · Volume One
Long-form essays on what changes when machines stop being tools and start being collaborators — the method, the judgment, and the parts nobody has figured out yet.
The Featured Essay
Jobs gave us the bicycle for the mind. Four decades on, that metaphor has run out of road — because AI does not make us faster at the thinking we already do. It shows us intellectual terrain we could not previously see.
More Reading
When an AI works with a group, whose instructions does it follow? Five decisions for building useful multiplayer agents, with a worked refund example and code from our Mastra multiplayer plugin.
The traditional paradigm of knowledge work — gather, analyse, synthesise — is being taken apart. What replaces it is not automation but orchestration, and it asks for a different kind of practitioner.
For most of the last century, a knowledge worker's value lay in what they could produce. That assumption is quietly collapsing. What remains scarce is the ability to direct the work, to supply the context a model cannot have, and to recognise a confident answer that happens to be wrong.
These essays are an attempt to work that out in public — slowly, and at length.
The Dispatch
One long-form piece at a time, sent when it's genuinely finished. No cadence promises, no roundups, no growth funnel.
