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Four paths through the work.

Field Notes are published chronologically, but the ideas tend to orbit four recurring questions: how AI enters real organizations, how work moves, how people coordinate, and what technological change asks us to become.

3 Essays

Enterprise AI

How AI succeeds or fails inside real organizations, workflows, and operating constraints.

  1. Stop Prompting Your AI, Start Project Managing It
  2. Even the Future Has a Backlog
  3. Most Enterprise AI Problems Aren’t AI Problems
2 Essays

Product & Delivery

Customer reality, product judgment, forward-deployed work, and the systems that turn intent into progress.

  1. Why Forward Deployed Product Managers Exist
  2. Found in Translation
3 Essays

Leadership & Systems

Clarity, communication, complexity, and the conditions that help people coordinate meaningful work.

  1. Schrödinger's Status
  2. Ambiguity Rewards the Curious
  3. Read the Room
5 Essays

Identity & Work

The human side of technological change: expertise, transitions, purpose, and who we become through work.

  1. Transforming the Identity License
  2. The Generalist Was Right All Along
  3. Grieving Your Past Selves
  4. You Are Not Your CMS
  5. Let the AI Plan the Party