Responsibility without authority is less than useless
Delegating responsibility while keeping every meaningful decision is not delegation. Give people authority within clear boundaries and let ownership become real.
Occasional writing
Notes
Short pieces about what I am making, what I am learning, and the parts that remain stubborn.
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Other Memory for iPhone is now live
Other Memory for iPhone is now free on the App Store, bringing Inbox capture, literature notes, bibliography handoff, and Kasten search to work away from the desk.
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Thinking inside the box
Thinking outside the box is useful only when you understand what is inside it. AI creates far more value when it expands real expertise than when it is used to bypass it.
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Have you actually used AI?
Talking to ChatGPT is not the same as knowing how to use AI for real work. Practical experience begins with responsibility, verification, and guardrails.
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Working on Ipoku
Working on the moment when Ipoku has helped enough and the person should look up from the phone.
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Working on Other Memory
Working on a Mac Preview app and free iPhone app without making the method dependent on either.
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Working through Red Flag Tactics
Reading the revised edition as one complete method and sending consultant English back to the bench.
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Working on RDAC
Building RDAC as a field binder that helps managers act without becoming another system of record.
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Revising Red Flag Tactics
What I am changing, and refusing to change, in a revised edition of Red Flag Tactics.
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Starting a digital Zettelkasten
Why meaningful Folgezettel addresses still matter in a digital Zettelkasten.
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10Lists 1.0 is available
What stayed simple—and what became surprisingly complicated—while bringing 10Lists 1.0 to the App Store.
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Returning to Ipoku
Returning to an idea from 1999 now that the technology has finally caught up with it.
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Starting RDAC
Why managers need help deciding what to do on Tuesday morning, not another source of advice.
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Starting 10Lists
Why I am building an iPhone companion for Grant Horner's ten-list Bible-reading approach.