Field Notes is our working record from real installations, in our clients' firms and our own: what the models do brilliantly, where they fail without wisdom, and why human leadership is the difference between AI that compounds and AI that gathers dust. Written from the operating chair, not the sidelines, by both founders.
"The scarcity is no longer tools. The scarcity becomes judgment." The January essay where the Vulcan thesis began.
The difference between delegating tasks and surrendering judgment, and why your output can be outsourced but your judgment can't.
What Intel Inside taught us about transformation from the inside out, and why cognition is now the substrate of the work itself.
AI rollouts fail the way bad hires fail: nobody tells them what the job is. Onboard an agent the way you'd onboard a person.
Advantage comes from the wisdom and taste that direct the machines: pattern recognition that doesn't come from a dataset. Three rebuilds, one move: intelligence inside the work, decisions kept human.
Your AI spend grows every month. Your explanation probably doesn't. Three questions to ask about the last 90 days.
The koi pond came with the house. The maintenance schedule came with the pond. What luxury assets teach about AI-built software.
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