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Attention Debt Comes Due
Every agent that hands work back for a decision borrows against your attention. Left unmanaged, that debt compounds until it comes due.
Essays
Practical posts on turning recurring work into controlled Task Machine workflows with approvals, checks, agents on your own machines, and a history you can read.
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A Company Is a System of Commitments
Every recurring promise needs an owner, a standard, and a record. People, agents, and software can all help keep it.
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Earned Autonomy
Autonomy is authority an agent earns by proving, decision after decision, that it can be trusted, instead of a dial you set on day one.
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Know the Blast Radius Before You Say Yes
The failures that hurt usually come from an agent being right about something that reached further than anyone checked.
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Management by Exception
As agents do more work, you cannot watch every run or approve every action. The company has to bring you only what needs your judgment.
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The System That Proposes Its Own Next Hire
Beyond running and remembering, a company's machinery should notice its own gaps and propose the fix for a human to approve.
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Agent-Native Companies Need Better Judgment
As AI makes execution abundant, attention, judgment, and responsibility become the defining work of a company.
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How Agent-Native Companies Stay Coherent
Capable agents can still pull a company in conflicting directions. Coherence requires shared goals, memory, authority, and feedback.
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The Age of Organizational Leverage
AI is changing how much operating capability a small company can build without increasing its headcount.