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View all tags →I built a new macOS tool in Swift called Asdfghjkl that lets you avoid the trackpad and control the mouse using the keyboard instead. It overlays a grid on the active screens, maps each cell to a letter, and keeps subdiv…
Read moreGo makes cross-compilation easy. Set GOOS and GOARCH, run go build, then you get a binary that Just Works. This means you can use Linux to build your project and get Windows, macOS and Android executables, across differe…
Read moreAnthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 today. You can read the official announcement, which has all the standard benchmarks, many of which it does well on. One interesting bit from the announcement caught my eye: The model’s…
Read morePairing Wardley's "Use Appropriate Methods" doctrine with meta-rationality and Munger's latticework to keep AI strategy from hardening into dogma.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesPractical sequences to move AI components from chaotic incidents back to complex and complicated domains through minimum-viable mapping, rapid guardrails, and doctrine updates.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesAllocate explicit entropy budgets on Wardley Maps to manage NK ruggedness, focus exploration, and cap coordination cost and rework through governance levers.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesConvert Wardley Maps and Cynefin playbooks into policy-as-code guardrails so AI agents can act within codified doctrine while humans handle exceptions.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesA new mental model that overlays Wardley Maps with autonomy bands to choreograph AI systems and human teams as capabilities evolve.
Read on Wardley Leadership Strategiestl;dr: skills-to-agents automatically compiles SKILL.md into AGENTS.md. Run it as a GitHub action with a step: uses: dave1010/skills-to-agents@v1. Coding agents benefit from custom instructions and tools. The standard wa…
Read moreHello, World. This site is still static HTML but now built with 11ty and hosted on Cloudflare Pages, rather than being handwritten HTML on GitHub Pages. This means it's easier for me to add content and will hopefully res…
Read moreUse Ackoff's interactive planning to pair idealised design with Wardley Maps, turning a shared vision of the future into executable gameplay.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesUse Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology to clarify messy problem spaces before mapping value chains with intent.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesWardley Maps feel definitive, but double-loop learning stops them from ossifying into doctrine and keeps teams adaptive.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesWardley Mapping the conserved risk profiles organisations face when they attenuate or amplify variety.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesUse Panarchy to read the resilience dynamics hiding behind Wardley Map evolution, turning climatic inevitabilities into strategic timing signals.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesUsing Kauffman's NK model to understand why modularity, doctrine, and exploratory gameplay matter when mapping complex systems.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesWhat happens when leaders wire Stafford Beer's Viable System Model into their AI operating system?
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesTreat large language models as co-analysts who keep Wardley Maps anchored on layered user needs instead of just today’s feature backlog.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesUsing language models to stress-test your Wardley Maps against plausible competitor plays without drowning in hypotheticals.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesHow ambient agents refactor architectures, uplift process maturity, and accelerate Wardley transitions without demanding heroics.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesWhy leaders must master map positioning and build multi-play readiness as AI agents collapse the cost of optionality.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesHow can AI-era leaders wield the full OODA loop to outpace autonomous competitors without losing ethical control?
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesWhy Wardley Mapping leaders must anticipate the accelerating evolution of software components.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesHow AI-driven agency is shifting execution power to individuals and redefining leadership priorities.
Read on Wardley Leadership StrategiesHow leaders can engineer stressors across sociotechnical systems so their organisations benefit from volatility rather than collapse under it.
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