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Essays · Volume One

Knowledge work is beingrewritten by agents.

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.

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Field Notes4 min read

The Evolution of Knowledge Work in the Age of AI

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.

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The Premise

Machines stopped being tools. Nobody updated the method.

About this project

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.

Method
How the practice of thinking changes when drafting is cheap and judgment is the constraint.
Field Notes
What actually happens inside teams building with agents — including the parts that don't work.
First Principles
The older ideas — instruments, apprenticeship, craft — that turn out to explain the new ones.

The Dispatch

New essays, infrequently.

One long-form piece at a time, sent when it's genuinely finished. No cadence promises, no roundups, no growth funnel.