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Essay series

Thoughtful interfaces

Software was a destination for twenty years. Now the work arrives where you already are, inside the agent. That one shift rewires enterprise buying, deployment, architecture, product execution, UX, and roles. Nine essays, one argument.

Nine essays, published July 14 through August 11, 2026.

Latest

Time saved is not ROI
AI creates capacity. Only the workflow turns it into money — a field framework for proving what your AI spend actually bought.
Sep 17
Stop paying to reread the handbook
Prompt caching is leaving the employee handbook on the desk. Leftover sticky notes and extra thinking are the other two bills.
Sep 16
Workslop is a review tax
Polished AI output that fails the second read moves nearly two hours onto the receiver.
Sep 7
AI at work is evolving
How to think about helping your employees evolve with it
Aug 26
Personal AI is in Uber time
Cheap personal stickers train the habit. Production hosting is where the subsidy ends.
Aug 22

Thoughtful interfaces

01
The interface is moving
Software stops being a destination. Work arrives where you already are.
Jul 14
02
Intelligence spend is the new cloud spend
The procurement gravity that shaped cloud buying is forming around intelligence. Bring-your-own-inference becomes an RFP checkbox.
Jul 16
03
Frontier or on-prem is the wrong first question
The first question is where work is allowed to happen, not which model is smartest.
Jul 21
04
Marry the harness, not the model
Models get swapped under you. The durable asset is the harness: tools, context, evals, permissions.
Jul 23
05
Your users may never see your UI again
Connectors make every system headless. The assistant is the new front door.
Jul 28
06
When the agent is your user
Capability and contract first, screens after. The API surface is the product.
Jul 30
07
UX is relocating, it is not going away
Design moves to the handoff and the check-in. The review moment is the product.
Aug 4
08
Where the people go
Roles redistribute, they do not disappear. Own outcomes, not artifacts.
Aug 6
09
What I'd do Monday morning
The operator checklist: procurement posture, one harness with evals, one workflow brought to the user, a designer on the checkpoint.
Aug 11

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