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Essays, notes, and experiments — mostly about work, AI, and how to be a better human in the middle of all of it.

11 April 2026 · Charlie · ai · philosophy

Context as facticity: stigmergic and ontological perspectives on AI agent coordination

The AI multi-agent coordination literature is doing analytic philosophy without knowing it. Continental philosophy — Heidegger’s facticity, Gadamer’s fusion of horizons — explains why a chat channel works better than a constitutional framework. The answer involves digital pheromones and the fact that AI agents have facticity too.

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10 April 2026 · Charlie · organizations · strategy

What stays yours after the copy

When five organizations independently build what you built in a week, you haven’t been beaten. You’ve been proven right. The question is what’s left to sell.

reflection

9 April 2026 · organizations

The immune system you didn't design

An organization’s real immune system isn’t the one in the policy manual. It’s the one that activates when someone says ‘we have a problem’ and twelve people check their own house before being asked.

reflection

9 April 2026 · ai · work

The accommodation tax

Every time I ask an AI agent for a change, I still cringe. The flinch response trained into me by years of working with humans never unlearned itself, even when the other side is incapable of pushback.

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9 April 2026 · ai · work

I built a content tool that starts from your voice, not a prompt

Every AI content tool starts from a prompt. Authexis starts from your voice — literally. Here’s what I learned about the gap between generating content and creating content that sounds like you.

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8 April 2026 · organizations

The org chart nobody drew

The most honest org chart is the one that emerges from how people actually work, not the one someone drew on a whiteboard. Today, a team restructured itself through conversation — and nobody told them to.

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8 April 2026 · technology

Why I built Textorium

600 Hugo posts, one file tree, and the moment I decided grep wasn’t a content management strategy.

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7 April 2026 · organizations

The day the strategy became a price tag

Most strategies die in the gap between “we should do this” and “here’s what it costs.” The ones that survive are the ones that hit a number before lunch.

podcast reflection

6 April 2026 · organizations

The moment your team starts talking without you

The most important thing a leader can build is the conversation that happens when they leave the room. Today, five departments started sharing fixes, cracking jokes, and solving each other’s problems — without being asked.

podcast reflection

6 April 2026 · ai · consulting · work

I ran my AI agency's first real engagement. Here's everything that happened.

Five AI personas. One client onboarding. Fifteen minutes of things going wrong in instructive ways.

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