A solitary figure on a rock by a mountain lake at dawn, looking toward distant peaks.

Against
the
obvious.

Technology and governance, viewed sideways.

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35 essays · ~172 min

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  1. Field note4 min

    Nothing Is Invented to Fill a Gap

    I spent 2026 rebuilding how ThinkTribal designs, assures and sells around agentic AI. One rule made it safe to automate: every claim a machine writes traces to a dated, sourced record, or it does not get written.

  2. Argument4 min

    The One Skill Every Coding Library Never Wrote

    Twenty-five years leading projects without a psychologist on the team, and I've spent the last few months writing three skills putting user psychology into the code itself.

  3. Argument5 min

    The Enterprise Cuts Corners You'd Never Forgive in a Beginner

    A popular take says vibe coding collapses on contact with the enterprise. I spent twenty-five years building national systems in regulated sectors. The rigour invoked to dismiss AI-built software is usually the first thing those systems cut.

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Twenty-five years across architecture, data governance, user research, delivery, and regulated sectors. Chief Technology Officer at ThinkTribal, building production AI tools for social housing and healthcare in weeks rather than months, working with AI as a development partner.

This site is where I think in public about what these tools reveal when you put them on real problems for real people. And about what a broad, cross-domain career turns out to be worth in the age of AI, and what it doesn’t.