Concepts
Naming is how you make a noticing portable.
These are handles for things I keep seeing
in the work, in the organizations, in the collaboration.
Some have arguments behind them. Some are still forming.
The name travels ahead of the understanding.
Epistemology of AI collaboration
Polanyi Inversion
We can tell more than we know.
Cognitive Signatures
Different AI systems carry different theories of how understanding emerges.
Interpretive Orchestration
Holding your own judgment while gaining from what AI enables.
Calculator Fallacy
Treating AI as if it delivers objective truth in interpretive work.
How do you notice when fluency outruns understanding?
What if the medium shapes the meaning, not just the message?
Who holds the synthesis?
What gets blocked when you optimize for the local maximum?
Agency and interaction
Whispered Agency
Through building artificial agency, we rediscover what was always human.
Vulnerability as Method
Using uncertainty as rigorous inquiry.
What reveals itself only when you try to replicate it?
What reveals itself when you stop performing expertise?
Governance and coordination
Token Duality
Tokens are simultaneously economic instruments and governance mechanisms.
Selective Centralization
Decentralized systems that strategically concentrate authority at specific decision points.
Structured Transparency
Making organizational processes visible in ways that build trust without creating surveillance.
SIGNA Framework
Analyzing token governance across multiple dimensions simultaneously.
What happens when markets and governance become recursive?
Which decisions need center, and whose?
What becomes visible that should stay hidden?
Can governance be formalized without losing what makes it human?