Companionist

A Field Guide to Corporate Aeronautics "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is." — Attributed to various people who learned this the hard way Every organization has skydivers and ground crew. The skydivers make the jump decisions—when to leap, from what

Corporate AI Implementation and the Architecture of Permanent Present Authors' Note: This essay is about why organizations keep making the same mistakes with technology. The answer isn't stupidity or malice. It's architecture—specifically, an architecture designed to prevent institutional memory from accumulating into governance. The

Strafing Our Own Hydroponic Garden... Because We Can The first essay dreamed of gardens—hydroponic pockets of meaning cultivated under artificial light, night jobs tended in the margins of the extractive day. But what if there are no margins left? What if the garden was always inside the reactor? Every

A defense of companionism: human intention + machine capability in the hydroponic gardens The online “authenticity” debate—the endless argument over whether content was written by a person or a machine—has become the cultural equivalent of rearranging deck chairs after the cruise ship of information architecture struck the iceberg of