writing
6 essays on this topic.
- A Garden Is Not a Changelog
Recent work only becomes public writing when the claim survives the removal of the event that produced it.
- When defender news weakens the Ask
Citing a vendor defender product in a paper that argues the threat surface is moving faster than controls undercuts the case it is supposed to support.
- Format is thinking discipline
Compression did not simply shorten the notes. It sharpened them. Headers and bullets had been doing the thinking the prose was supposed to do.
- Operating papers and board papers can't be the same document
One paper for two audiences reads like leverage. It is actually a trap. The director commissions; the board governs a portfolio. They cannot read the same document.
- LLMs Are Better at Editing Than Writing
Ask an AI to write from scratch and you get the average of the corpus. Give it something rough and it amplifies what's already there. The workflow implications are significant.
- AI Fixed My Perfectionism (Sort Of)
On why the blank page stopped being the hard part.