2026
- Weekly Review: Oct 12–18, 2026
TL;DR: Five posts this week, and in most of them the part that decides the outcome sits outside the frame you were looking at. The sender stares at the silence, while the real cause is the receiver’s …
- Weekly Review — Oct 5–11, 2026
TL;DR: Six posts this week, and most of them ask the same question from different seats: who carries the consequence of a decision, and can they see it? A line in a reorg plan that the planners can …
- Weekly Review — Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026
TL;DR: Five posts this week, and four of them circle the same uncomfortable pattern: people often judge what they can see rather than what is there. Visible effort can count for more than equally …
- Weekly Review — Sep 21–27, 2026
TL;DR: Five posts this week, and four of them circle the same idea from different rooms: the gap between two minds that share a table but not a world. Feedback lands several times heavier than it was …
- Weekly Review — Sep 14–20, 2026
TL;DR: Four posts this week, and one quiet habit running under all of them: taking something that looks new, mysterious, or personal and renaming it as something familiar and structural. Agent …
- Weekly Review — Sep 7–13, 2026
TL;DR: Five posts this week, split cleanly in two. Three build out the agentic web: why the content-API-versus-HTTP debate is a category error, and a tiny publisher whose HTTP 402 carries both a …
- Weekly Review — Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026
TL;DR: Four posts this week, and three of them circle the same uncomfortable idea: a system rarely sees its own blind spot. A content pipeline that approved a claim its own source contradicted, a …
- Weekly Review — Aug 24–30, 2026
TL;DR: Three posts this week. Two are about the stuff an agent reads; one is about what an agent is measured on. The first is a small Bedrock experiment showing that a “sponsored” block in agent-read …
- Weekly Review — Aug 17-23, 2026
TL;DR: Three posts this week, and they rhyme: each one looks past the loud, obvious layer to a quieter one underneath. Amara’s Law says the AGI peak is what we overrate and the boring, already-useful …
- Weekly Review — Aug 10–16, 2026
TL;DR: Five posts this week, one habit worth keeping: read past the headline before you decide. A metric is not the goal it stands in for (Goodhart’s Law). A model being big is about trainability, …
- Weekly Review — Aug 3–9, 2026
TL;DR: Three posts this week, one quiet throughline: the disciplined, bounded move keeps beating the maximalist one. Gall’s Law says you compose a complex system from small working bricks instead of …
- Weekly Review — July 27-August 2, 2026
TL;DR: Three posts about where the human stays in charge as agents do more of the work. “Laws & Disorder” closes with Tesler’s Law: you can’t delete a system’s complexity, only choose who owns each …
- Weekly Review — July 20-26, 2026
TL;DR: Three posts about the cost you can’t see until you go looking. “Laws & Disorder” continues with Hyrum’s Law: every observable behavior of your API is a contract someone depends on, and AI …
- Weekly Review — July 13-19, 2026
TL;DR: Three posts, one quiet theme: the structure you don’t design still gets drawn. “Laws & Disorder” opens with Conway’s Law — your architecture mirrors your org chart, so shape the teams first, …
- Weekly Review — July 6-12, 2026
TL;DR: This week was about taking a big idea off the whiteboard and finding the exact AWS building block that turns it on. Two posts continue the “Whiteboard to Cloud” series: compression as the …
- Weekly Review — June 29-July 5, 2026
TL;DR: This week was about where knowledge lives, who owns it, and where the real work actually is. Three posts climb the agent-memory ladder: naming the spectrum, then the retrieval mechanism (vector …
- Weekly Review — June 22-28, 2026
🎬 Also available as a blog walkthrough video — a short narrated tour of the week’s five posts. TL;DR: Five posts this week, and they rhyme. Each one treats an AI agent as a first-class user of a …
- Weekly Review — June 15-21, 2026
🎬 Prefer to watch? This week’s review is also a narrated video walkthrough. TL;DR: Six posts this week, and most of them do the same thing: take guidance or a principle and turn it into something you …
- Weekly Review — June 8-14, 2026
TL;DR: Six posts this week, all circling one idea: across this week’s cases, raw model power was rarely the differentiator — the structure, governance, and craft around the model were. A paper (and a …
- Weekly Review — June 1-7, 2026
TL;DR: Six posts went out this week, and three of them kept circling the same idea: in the agents I run, reliability has come less from better prompts than from structure. Boundaries, constraints, and …