Essays on Innovation, Technology and Change

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Essays on problem framing, innovation systems, emerging technologies and organizational change.

AI Agents & Systems11 min read·Oct 6, 2026

Design systems need an interaction policy layer for AI

Components can keep an AI experience visually on-system while the agent is behaviorally off-policy. Design systems now need reusable rules for what AI may present, decide, execute, defer, expose as uncertain, confirm, reverse and escalate.

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AI Agents & Systems14 min read·Sep 30, 2026

OpenAI Decisions API turns probability into policy

The provocative part of OpenAI's Decisions API is not that AI can make choices. It is that a model score can quietly become an action — and an action can quietly become policy.

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AI Agents & Systems14 min read·Sep 29, 2026

OpenAI Dots is a test of whether AI can carry a goal, not just complete a task

Dots matters less as another capable assistant than as a test of persistent delegation: can AI keep carrying a goal without giving the user a new system to manage?

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AI Agents & Systems9 min read·Sep 17, 2026

The next AI interface may never be seen

Agents are turning software capabilities into an interface of their own. The next enterprise design problem is deciding what should be callable, by whom, and under which boundaries.

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AI Agents & Systems8 min read·Sep 16, 2026

The agent is not the operating model

Giving AI more autonomy does not remove organizational complexity. It gives that complexity permission to act.

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