organizational futures
5 essays"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..."
read essay →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..."
read essay →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..."
read essay →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..."
read essay →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..."
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