We keep making AI smarter by letting it remember more—but real intelligence comes from knowing what to forget. This essay explores how context compression transforms scattered data into institutional intelligence, showing why the future belongs to those who master the art of smarter forgetting.

I recently heard a seasoned programmer complain that AI was turning him into an "AI Agent Manager" rather than code/software craftsman. "I actually enjoy programming!" he said, frustrated that a programmer's new role involves orchestrating AI agents instead of writing code themselves. As a programmer myself who knows both lawyers and poets, I realized they're facing the same dilemma with language in the age of AI. Most people think lawyers and poets are opposites. Lawyers seem rigid, bound by...

Strategy. The word shows up in every slide deck, earning calls report, press release, and hallway whisper. Add “AI” in front of it and the noise level triples. But when you ask, “What does a good AI strategy look like?” the room goes quiet. Let’s fix that. What does AI Strategy *really* mean?

Business software has stagnated for three decades, stuck in a paradigm where objects and CRUD operations define our work. Despite massive computing advances, we've merely moved these object-manipulation interfaces to the cloud rather than fundamentally rethinking how software models business processes. This essay proposes Finite Object State Machines (FOSMs) as a transformative alternative. Unlike CRUD systems that allow arbitrary field edits, FOSMs model business entities as...