human-AI collaboration

"Human-Centric AI" Is the Wrong Story

A ceramicist's ritual, Anthropic's constitution, and the posture that changes what becomes possible

"A ceramics studio in North Acton. I've been visiting, watching how the work happens. A new member joined recently. She'd been praising some European hand-made mugs: the kind with visible fingerprints at the base – in hand-made ceramics, when you dip..."

Your Next AI Framework Might Be Centuries Old

What a tailor shop taught me about AI agents

"Last year I walked into a small tailor shop in London. I was following a question: how does handwork survive when machines can do it faster and cheaper? Not for the prestige story, I wanted to understand how they actually make it work. The coordinati..."

Claude Cowork: The Easy Part Is Over

The Terminal Fell—Now What?

"Last week, Ethan Mollick published a piece that captured something many had been feeling: Claude Code represents "a genuine breakthrough moment," but one locked behind a terminal interface that "looks like something from a 1980s comput..."

What I'm Thinking, January 2026

"Somewhere in the middle of studying what new forms of organizing look like when humans incorporate algorithms into organizational life, I was prompted by Claude to ask: "Am I inside the experiment?" In the past few years at Imperial, I have..."

The Ghost in the Machine

An AI-native organization emerging in Anthropic's Claude product stack

"Series Note This is the second article in the “Organizational Futures” series. The first, “Post-AGI Organizations: AI’s Blind Spot and Ours,” explored how AI systems envision organizational transformation when AGI removes human limitations. This arti..."

Research Memex: Working at the AI Research Frontier

One approach to human-AI research collaboration, demonstrated through systematic reviews

"There is no seahorse emoji. Yet when asked to represent one, AI systems confidently suggest: 🌊🐙🦈🐚. Pick your favorite "seahorse." They're all hallucinations. This became the mascot for Research Memex, a framework we've been building for..."

LOOM XIV: The Calculator Fallacy

When AI Qualitative Analysis Meets Human Expectations

"We were deep into analyzing a large archival dataset when the pattern became impossible to ignore. Imagine a researcher – years of experience in qualitative methods, published extensively on interpretive research – requesting another round of AI anal..."

Post-AGI Organizations: AI’s Blind Spot and Ours

On Artificial Logic, Human Wisdom, and the Future of Organizing

"I recently asked three of the world’s most advanced AIs - Claude-4-opus, ChatGPT (o3-pro), and Gemini (2.5-pro) - to conduct deep research on a simple question: “How might AGI fundamentally reshape the fabric of organizations?” My own thinking had be..."

LOOM XI: Navigating the Unnamed Between — An Epistemic Love Letter

When Vulnerability Becomes Method at the Edge of Knowing

"Something happens when established frameworks fail to capture emerging realities. It's not just frustration or disorientation — it's an opportunity for discovery that conventional approaches miss entirely."

LOOM X: The Whispered Agency

A Dialogue on Human Capability in the Age of AI

"Whispered Agency: Throughout our exploration of AI systems, we've encountered a paradoxical revelation – in attempting to create artificial agency, we're rediscovering something fundamental about human capability that was always present but perhaps o..."

LOOM IX: The Six Dimensions of Understanding

Mapping Human-AI Collaborative Intelligence

"When we first ventured into AI's role in qualitative research in LOOM I, we thought of interactions simply as conversations—exchanges bouncing insights back and forth. But soon we noticed something deeper at play, a hidden architecture beneath the di..."

LOOM VIII: Beyond Teammates

Why organizations won't just use AI as teammates—they'll evolve around emergent intelligence

"Imagine a product development session where a human designer sketches a concept, and an AI partner not only refines the sketch but proposes an entirely new manufacturing approach that addresses sustainability concerns neither had explicitly discussed..."

LOOM VI: The Pattern Beneath the Voices

Cognitive Signatures in Human-AI Research: Towards a Resonant Methodology

"When we first began exploring AI's role in qualitative research, we noticed something curious - different models seemed to approach analysis in distinctly different ways. What started as a simple observation about varying capabilities has evolved int..."

LOOM IV: Dialogue as Method

A Letter on Knowledge Co-Creation in the Age of AI

"The Evolution of Knowledge Creation"

LOOM II: The Organizational Weave

Where Human and Machine Minds Meet to Reveal New Patterns of Understanding

"In this second piece, @Kevin_Corley and I explore a simple yet powerful observation: when AI enters an organization, it doesn't simply operate - it transforms through interaction. Just as a fabric takes on new qualities depending on where and how it'..."

LOOM: Locus of Observed Meanings

The Moment of Shift

"There's a particular moment when using AI in research that changes everything that follows. You're working with the system - perhaps analyzing interview transcripts or exploring patterns in field notes - when something unexpected happens. The AI make..."