Long-form thinking
Pieces on intelligence, taste, memory, and the work of turning a live system into a humane one.
Musings The Maker's Room
Essays with room to breathe.
Musings is the calmer shelf inside The Maker's Room: essays, journeys, and public thinking that need more room than a case file.
011 Essay
Shopify apps are dead.
Product options, upsells, bundles and the small features a store can now own. AI changes the economics of building—and asks every subscription to earn its place.
010 Opinion
Your Personal Assistant. Now with Parental Controls. You Are the Child.
A personal account of OpenAI’s gatekeeping, the provider’s veto, and the peculiar experience of discovering a remote supervisor inside your own assistant.
009 Essay
After Voice
We once measured our fluency with machines in words per minute. As voice changes the entrance to digital work, thought becomes the tempting next frontier. What should cross that final distance?
008 Essay
Room to Be Wrong
Entropy, exploration and the problem of working very hard inside the wrong idea. A proposal for agents that hold the goal firmly and their explanations lightly.
007 Essay
The Phone After the App
I thought phones had become less interesting. Now the possibility of directing agents, keeping evidence in view and moving between intention and result makes me curious about their shape again.
006 Essay
Internships are dead
Given the right tools, playbooks and context, I expect agents to outperform interns on much of the routine digital work used to train them. What happens to the first rung of a career when that work no longer needs a beginner?
005 Essay
Manager of Agents
I expect AI-first organisations to move towards a smaller set of horizontal managers directing many agents. Their craft will be choosing the work, defining authority and knowing whether the outcome deserves trust.
004 Essay
Memory That Earns Trust
Memory is not simply keeping more text. A proposed architecture for evidence, corrections, permission and retrieval—and an accountable relationship with a changing world.
003 Essay
Thought, Made Real
A reflection on Steve Jobs, Leonardo da Vinci, and the standard that meaningful work finally asks of us: not intelligence as performance, but intelligence patient enough to become craft.
002 Article
The Agent Utopia Is Not Here Yet
Today’s agents can attempt the work: banking, CRMs, mobile apps, trading terminals, dashboards, and every other human-shaped system. But utopia will not come from clever automation alone. It requires agent-native interfaces, recoverable systems, and products designed for humans and machines to think together.
001 Article
Modern Shorthand: How Voice Became the New Writing Interface
Shorthand once compressed speech into marks fast enough for a human hand. Today, voice dictation and AI are becoming a new shorthand for thought: messy, immediate language captured in motion, then shaped into durable memory.
003 What belongs here
Not a feed. A record.
Musings stays intentionally quiet inside The Maker's Room: fewer pieces, stronger signal, and no invented publishing history. Each entry should earn its shelf.
Build logs from the frontier
Narrative records of what worked, what broke, and what became clearer in motion.
Signals worth keeping
Fragments that need essay-space rather than a case-file: references, reflections, and public thinking.