Short essays on building businesses, serving community, and what 67 countries taught me about the place I live.


I tried to make this argument in the form I know. It kept coming out as a recommendation, and the whole point is that it isn't one.

Code can be changed by a well-meaning engineer on a deadline. A constraint cannot. Most of what I mean by governed AI sits in that difference.
I spent thirty years removing friction from organisations. Then I sat on three state commissions and learned what some of it had been holding up.
I have run for local office three times in the same county. The campaigns blur together. The doorsteps don't.

Every country looks competent on a good day. The revealing moment is the one where the script runs out — and someone has to decide whether they are allowed to think.