Tag: AI governance
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Aligned to the Quarter
Photo by Anne Nygård on Unsplash I build the instruments organizations use to watch themselves. Dashboards, databases, pipelines, semantic models, reports, and the row-level security rules that quietly decide who sees which version of the truth. The first thing that work teaches you is how easily a number stays green while the thing beneath it…
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Permission Is Infrastructure
Photo by Meriç Dağlı on Unsplash I’ve already written about the drive that died. A small SSD in a small server, gone in the clean, undramatic way that hardware sometimes goes: no boot drive detected, no logs, no debris. Three months of work returned to silence. I wrote at the time that the lesson was…
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The Meter is a Map
Photo by Tyler on Unsplash Author’s Note When I published The Token Tax three weeks ago, I expected the cost conversation around enterprise AI to keep growing. I did not expect it to accelerate this quickly. In the time since, the same pattern has surfaced across the industry in plain view: companies exhausting an entire…
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Leased Understanding
Photo by Casey Lovegrove on Unsplash Author’s note: Two objections are worth granting upfront. First: renting competence can be optimal. Not everything should be rebuilt internally, and not every organization can afford deep expertise in every domain. The point here isn’t “never outsource.” It’s: don’t outsource comprehension for systems you’re accountable for. Second: internal teams…
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Trust Is Infrastructure
Photo by Joseph Corl on Unsplash In the decades following the repeal of the Fairness Doctrine, Americans learned a bitter lesson about trust: the news wasn’t just a carrier of facts anymore. It was a platform with incentives. What once felt like shared information slowly became something else: an arena where attention was the product,…
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The Space Between Slop and Solutions
Photo by John Cardamone on Unsplash In early 2026, a meme started making the rounds with surprising traction: Microslop. It began as a riff on “AI slop”; Merriam-Webster’s 2025 Word of the Year, coined to describe the deluge of low-effort, AI-generated content saturating digital platforms. Within days, Microslop had become shorthand for growing public frustration…
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Building Aria: Part 5 – Intermission; Agents, Autonomy, and Decision Architecture
Photo by Alexas_Fotos on Unsplash This week, Aria stands still, for once. Not frozen, not halted, just still. The logs report cleanly, get flagged as needed. Every process hums quietly, every function loops without friction, and for the first time since the project began, there is equilibrium. The chat loop works, the infrastructure responds, the…
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