Topics
Browse the archive by recurring themes.
These topic pages group public writing, research, protocols, and Agent Canon notes around the questions that show up repeatedly: agentic systems, governance, operations, data, leadership, cost, value, and learning.
Board-level AI governance, risk, accountability, oversight, and the operating disciplines needed to keep powerful systems useful.
Latest: Even LLMs Need a Firewall 117 pieces Agentic systemsPractical writing, research, and Agent Canon notes on agentic systems that need to operate reliably in real organisations, not just impress in demos.
Latest: Even LLMs Need a Firewall 102 pieces OperationsOperating models, workflow design, execution cadence, and the translation layer between strategic intent and daily reality.
Latest: Even LLMs Need a Firewall 79 pieces Data and architectureData, architecture, APIs, knowledge stores, and the public infrastructure that lets humans and agents find trustworthy information.
Latest: Even LLMs Need a Firewall 75 pieces LeadershipLeadership judgement, decision quality, CEO and board work, peer learning, and the human side of technology adoption.
Latest: Consensus Is Not Compliance 57 pieces Cost and valueCost, value, ROI, token spend, hidden waste, and the economic choices behind practical AI adoption.
Latest: Thank You, Mum 36 pieces EducationLearning, teaching, critical thinking, skills, and how people build capability around AI and agentic systems.
Latest: Thank You, MumFor readers
Use topics when you know the problem before you know the article.
Writing, research, protocols, and Agent Canon notes are still the canonical pages. Topics are a reading layer over the same published material, designed to help humans and agents move through the archive by theme.