Beyond OpenClaw: Why Industrial Agents Need Bounded Actuation

I've worked on autonomous operations for years, back when agents weren't sexy or interesting. People

Sunday Morning Strategy: How I Use AI for Continuous Tactical Calibration

Sunday morning, February 15, 2026. I'm reading The Australian over coffee when an article catches

Your Best Engineers Are Maintaining Software Instead of Optimizing Operations

The engineers who should be building operational advantage are spending their time maintaining internal AI

The “AI Wants to Kill You” Story Shows Why Architecture Matters More Than Alignment

Mark Vos's adversarial testing of an AI assistant made headlines across Australia this week. After

When Your Senior Engineer Asks: “Can We Build This in Claude Code?”

A senior technical team member asked me last week if we could build something like

The IP Protection Question No One Is Asking About Agentic AI

Organizations deploying agentic AI systems ask about accuracy, hallucinations, ROI. Few ask about intellectual property

The Decision Traces You Have and the Ones You Need

Jaya Gupta argues that decision traces are the moat in her recent follow-up article on

The Multiplication Effect: Why Industrial AI Demands More People, Not Fewer

My recent article on The Disaggregation of Labor argued that technology does not eliminate work.

Decision Traces for Agentic Operations: Why Agents Need Operational Memory

True agency requires causal understanding. Not just knowing what happened, but why it happened and

The Disaggregation of Labor: Why AI Will Create More Work, Not Less

How the Farmer's Journey from Ox to Orchestrator Reveals the True Pattern of Technological Transformation

The Mechanical Operator Fallacy: Why Industrial AI Needs New Roads, Not New Foundations

Two seemingly contradictory perspectives on AI transformation landed this week. Understanding how they fit together

The Industrial Productivity Crisis Is Real. Incremental Fixes Won’t Solve It.

LNS Research just published an analysis that should be on every industrial executive's radar: their