[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"cms-topics":3,"$fb8zo1s34tleq":34},[4,13,20,27],{"slug":5,"name":6,"intro":7,"introText":8,"seoTitle":6,"seoDescription":9,"essayCount":10,"indexable":11,"path":12},"trust-as-infrastructure","Trust as Infrastructure",null,"Signals, systems, networks, time, and resilience - and how they build on each other. The conventional wisdom on trust is wrong. This is the correction. Each article breaks down one assumption about authenticity, credibility, or signals... and rebuilds it from the ground up. Strategy for leaders who need credibility to actually hold.","The conventional wisdom on trust is wrong. This is the correction. Strategy for leaders who need credibility to actually hold.",16,true,"\u002Fwriting\u002Ftrust-as-infrastructure",{"slug":14,"name":15,"intro":7,"introText":16,"seoTitle":15,"seoDescription":17,"essayCount":18,"indexable":11,"path":19},"human-in-the-loop","Human in the Loop","AI won't replace your expertise. It will expose whether you had any. Personal essays from the professional middle: the judgment calls, identity questions, and uncomfortable moments that don't show up in the frameworks. For practitioners navigating the AI transition without a script.","AI won't replace your expertise. It will expose whether you had any. For practitioners navigating the AI transition without a script.",5,"\u002Fwriting\u002Fhuman-in-the-loop",{"slug":21,"name":22,"intro":7,"introText":23,"seoTitle":22,"seoDescription":24,"essayCount":25,"indexable":11,"path":26},"craft","Craft","The gap between what you intend to signal and what your audience actually receives is where trust dies. Practical reads on the visible layer: what your clients, readers, and critics see when they look, and how the thing got made that way. Because the strategy is only as good as what shows up on the other side.","The gap between what you intend to signal and what your audience actually receives is where trust dies. Practical reads on the visible layer, and how the work gets made.",8,"\u002Fwriting\u002Fcraft",{"slug":28,"name":29,"intro":7,"introText":30,"seoTitle":29,"seoDescription":31,"essayCount":32,"indexable":11,"path":33},"creative-technology","Creative Technology","Most of the interesting work happens at the seams between industries. The real-time engines built for games turn out to be what the water sector needed. Generative AI makes more sense as an org chart than as math. Notes from thirty years of pointing new tools at old problems, and watching what happens when someone aims them wrong.","Where new tools meet old problems. Real-time engines for the water sector, generative AI as an org chart, and how to aim technology at the right target.",3,"\u002Fwriting\u002Fcreative-technology",{"topic":35,"essays":47},{"slug":14,"name":15,"heroId":36,"intro":37,"introText":16,"seoTitle":15,"seoDescription":17,"essayCount":18,"indexable":11,"path":19},"d152544f-1b36-4ca0-a2f1-93b883df3581",{"type":38,"children":39},"root",[40],{"type":41,"tag":42,"props":43,"children":44},"element","p",{},[45],{"type":46,"value":16},"text",[48,57,66,75,84],{"slug":49,"title":50,"subtitle":51,"excerpt":52,"publishAt":53,"topic":54,"heroId":55,"path":56},"the-messiness-premium","The Messiness Premium","Polish used to prove effort. Now it indicates a machine make it.","When AI makes flawless content free, polish stops proving effort and starts signaling a machine. Why strategic imperfection is becoming a measurable premium.","2026-06-25T16:37:43.041Z",{"slug":14,"name":15},"d32f6461-d710-415e-9992-91f58b2b5c8b","\u002Fwriting\u002Fhuman-in-the-loop\u002Fthe-messiness-premium",{"slug":58,"title":59,"subtitle":60,"excerpt":61,"publishAt":62,"topic":63,"heroId":64,"path":65},"theyre-not-asking-about-taste-anymore","They’re Not Asking About Taste Anymore","What to say when a younger colleague asks how you decide.","Juniors have taste-shaped AI output before they have taste. Four questions to tell whether you're still in the work, and how to mentor through it.","2026-06-09T11:56:53.129Z",{"slug":14,"name":15},"a5ef10ba-0b32-4d18-9005-b3f25b2ff777","\u002Fwriting\u002Fhuman-in-the-loop\u002Ftheyre-not-asking-about-taste-anymore",{"slug":67,"title":68,"subtitle":69,"excerpt":70,"publishAt":71,"topic":72,"heroId":73,"path":74},"professional-identity-purgatory","Professional Identity Purgatory","The version where you keep your job and lose the meaning anyway","Curtis named it for those who lost the role. The harder version belongs to the people still in the chair, no longer feeling the job is theirs.","2026-05-16T16:48:05.339Z",{"slug":14,"name":15},"ba88dd16-b6ed-4c2b-b3d0-2ac911a45091","\u002Fwriting\u002Fhuman-in-the-loop\u002Fprofessional-identity-purgatory",{"slug":76,"title":77,"subtitle":78,"excerpt":79,"publishAt":80,"topic":81,"heroId":82,"path":83},"the-standup-nobody-wants-to-have","The Standup Nobody Wants to Have","Why the silence after 'I used AI' isn't awkward. It's organized.","Four separate calculations run in the room the moment somebody admits they used AI. A disclosure policy addresses none of them, because the problem was built long before the standup.","2026-05-09T15:10:34.030Z",{"slug":14,"name":15},"f021f18a-94aa-4c00-a671-ae4b1bb022a2","\u002Fwriting\u002Fhuman-in-the-loop\u002Fthe-standup-nobody-wants-to-have",{"slug":85,"title":86,"subtitle":87,"excerpt":88,"publishAt":89,"topic":90,"heroId":91,"path":92},"youre-not-a-fraud-for-using-ai-the","You're Not a Fraud for Using AI. The Fraud Is the Silence.","A Three-Questions Audit for Transparent AI Usage","The credibility damage comes from the surprise, not the tool. Three questions will tell you where your contribution ends and the machine's begins, and give you something honest to say about it.","2026-04-19T13:05:43.728Z",{"slug":14,"name":15},"bf8bb753-4910-430e-97af-00bd05e5a81b","\u002Fwriting\u002Fhuman-in-the-loop\u002Fyoure-not-a-fraud-for-using-ai-the"]