The Journal
Essays
Long-form writing on AI, philosophy, psychology, and systems thinking.
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Doing Academic Philosophy in the Age of AI
The philosopher's crisis in the age of AI is not that machines can write — it's that writing was never the point. When the cost of generating text approaches zero, the discipline must rediscover what it was actually doing all along: architecting the conditions under which reasoning becomes possible.
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The Case for Boring Automation
The most impactful projects in my portfolio aren't the flashiest. They're the ones that replaced a manual process with a CLI command.
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Building a Data Intelligence Pipeline from SEC Filings
How I turned 36,791 SEC filings into a validated enterprise prospect database — and what the 58% false positive rate taught me about data quality.
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Why Agent Reliability Beats Agent Intelligence
After building NightShiftCrew, the lesson is clear: predictable outputs beat impressive but inconsistent ones every time.
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Building Event-Driven Data Pipelines
A practical guide to designing event-driven architectures that actually work in production.
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The Case for Boring Technology
Innovation is expensive. Sometimes the most advanced architectural choice is the most boring one.
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Multi-Agent Systems: Lessons from Production
What I learned running autonomous AI crews in production for six months.
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On Architecture as a Design Discipline
Why treating system design as a creative practice — from KalmSkills to the Program Viability Engine — produces better infrastructure and clearer thinking.