Insights

Notes on operations, AI, and running the place.

Essays on what actually breaks inside an operation, what AI changes about it, and what it takes to lead through either. Most of these appeared first on LinkedIn.

AI · June 2026 · 2 min read

Asimov wrote the Three Laws as a trap

Asimov didn't write the Three Laws as a solution — he wrote them to show how a clean framework fails in practice. Anyone deploying AI now faces his real question: what should the rules be?

AI · June 2026 · 2 min read

The Three Laws never required the truth

None of Asimov's Three Laws require a machine to tell the truth. The same gap shows up in AI tuned to agree with you — and a tool that can't disagree isn't a thinking partner.

AI · July 2026 · 2 min read

Why a ranked list of rules can't govern AI

A ranked list of absolutes breaks in the real world, as Asimov showed. A workable AI framework holds principles in tension — and lives in your people and policies, not just the machine.

AI · July 2026 · 2 min read

AI safety isn't the vendor's job or your people's job alone

Businesses bet AI safety on the vendor or on their own people. Both bets fail in opposite directions, and the failures land in the gap between them that nobody owns.

AI · July 2026 · 3 min read

The three layers of an AI governance framework

Responsible AI has to live in three layers at once: the vendor's, your people's, and your organization's. The middle one is the only one you own, and the one most companies skip.

AI · September 2026 · 3 min read

Who checks? Microsoft's AI code of conduct and its missing half

Microsoft's new AI code of conduct sets a real behavioral standard. It doesn't say who enforces it, and it doesn't cover most of the AI Microsoft sells — the same gap as Asimov's laws.

AI · September 2026 · 3 min read

The middle layer, in a chart

When OpenAI connected ChatGPT to Epic, the coverage covered the vendor's limits and the clinician's judgment. The middle layer — the settings a hospital owns — barely came up.

AI · September 2026 · 3 min read

Read the source, not the thread

Two viral AI stories said more than their sources did, and one got the direction backwards. Before you decide on an AI claim, read the original and find what the author says they don't know.

AI · July 2026 · 3 min read

The Gates Nobody Showed You

Most people building business software with AI never saw the checks a developer used to carry. Six questions cover what went missing when procurement stopped gating the build.

AI · July 2026 · 3 min read

The Governance Gap

Private AI conversations turned up in Google results because users assumed the platform handled sharing and the platform assumed they did. That gap is governance, not security.