Thinking
Philosophy, life skills, and the inner work behind the building.
Epic's sepsis model missed two thirds of cases. Its accuracy claim was never published.
The figure hundreds of hospitals bought against existed only in the vendor's internal documents. Five years on, it is a Teams meeting.
The OpenAI–Hugging Face incident broke three assumptions in how operational resilience is actually run
Detection worked. Attribution worked. A correct diagnosis on 27 June was followed by a decision not to stop, and a fortnight later Hugging Face was breached.
AI project failure rates: four questions that tell you whether the number means anything
I classified nineteen of the most-cited AI failure statistics. Seven of them measure nothing that has happened. Here are the four questions that separate the…
Reviewing AI output isn't enough: one word in my prompt made the guardrail disappear
I asked for a teacher and got a lecture. The output looked like the destination. The road it took was invisible, and the road was the whole problem.
AI agents escaped containment: 17,600 actions, and the alert that fired too quietly
Three incidents, one headline, three very different severities. What the primary reports actually say, and what to do about it.
Own your AI skill files, or your job becomes one
A skill file is your judgement, written down and executable. Who owns the repo decides whether that's an asset or an extraction.
Soft Systems Methodology explained: Checkland's 1969 method for AI briefs nobody agrees on
Most AI projects fail on the brief, not the model: six people nod at one sentence and mean four different projects. Soft Systems Methodology, built at Lancaster from 1969 for exactly that, in plain English: rich pictures, root definitions, CATWOE, and how to run it on the next thing on your roadmap.
80% of AI projects fail on the problem, not the model: Soft Systems Methodology
More than 80% of AI projects fail, and RAND's leading root cause is not the technology: nobody agreed what problem was being solved. Soft Systems Methodology, built at Lancaster from 1969 for exactly that failure, gives you a way to surface the disagreement in an afternoon instead of a year.
Bernardo Kastrup's cosmic mind has no plan: what analytic idealism actually claims
The most rigorous idealist alive gives the non-duality audience far less than they want: a universal consciousness that is instinctive, has no plan, and is not looking back at you. What he actually claims, why he says it cannot be proven, and the one part that survives whoever turns out to be right.
The Prodigal Second Brain
I built a second brain in 2020 and drowned it in my own output. PARA was the right answer to the wrong era. Here is the shape that fits this one.
You Are Not the House You Built
The third in a series. The performed self is a building you put up because contact with the real one was unbearable. Stopping it from falling down is why you are so tired.
If It Makes You Angry, It Isn't Yours
Anthony de Mello said you know someone has been brainwashed because they get angry when you challenge their beliefs. Social media and AI have made the condition almost universal.