Field notes on AI, systems and the reorganization of work.

“Use AI” is not a strategy

There are two finance books on my desk. I bought them six weeks ago. Neither one is open. We had to assess whether to replace one of our finance tools with an AI-native version. To judge that, I had to understand what we were replacing. That's where I

The company we documented is not the company we run

The model told me how our billing system worked. The system it described wasn't fully live yet.

The five-second gut check

Everyone's automating the work. Nobody's designing the five seconds where a human actually decides.

Letting go is how you keep up

When execution stops being the job, holding on makes you slower.