Compressing Cognition: The Real Efficiency Gain

People ask about efficiency gains in terms of time saved. The real gain is different, and I want to describe it precisely. What My Time Actually Goes To For most senior decisions, my time is not spent on the final answer. It is spent on: re-reading long email chains....

What Tessera Actually Does in a Day

Six months of development. The holdout experiment validated the approach. The architecture is stable. Time to document what daily use actually looks like. Morning: Email Triage The overnight email queue contains a mix of escalations, strategic discussions, vendor...

The Right to Be Forgotten in an AI World

When we talk about AI ethics, we are really talking about power: who has it, how it is exercised, and what accountability exists when it is exercised poorly. AI concentrates decision-making power in systems and the people who build them. Ethics is the discipline of...

API Keys in Personal Accounts: The Shadow AI Blind Spot

Shadow AI represents the largest unmanaged risk surface in most organizations today. Unlike shadow IT, which involved unauthorized software installations that could be detected through endpoint management, shadow AI operates through web browsers and mobile apps that...

The Ethics of Predictive Analytics in Insurance

Every AI deployment makes implicit ethical choices. The training data encodes values. The objective function prioritizes outcomes. The deployment context determines who is affected. Pretending these choices are purely technical is itself an ethical position, and not a...