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202663

Don't cry, darling, it's AGI alright
Promotion in 2026
The Facilitator in the Machine
More intelligence or less?
The Question is the Answer
Dollars don't care where they come from
On Slop
I'm a percussionist now
Signals & Subtractions is now a Podcast!
The Language That Does Not Yet Exist
Counting what I delegated to AI
Writing Quality After AI
The Blind Men Were Right
Rules Were Never the Hard Part
Aspirational Lying
Harnessie
Independence, Verified
The Holiday Weekend Scam Call
Audit Thyself?
AI Onramps
Vocabulary Debt
Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
Intelligence: Rent or Own?
Solution Shapes
On Time or Ready?
Your AI Agent Reads Setup Guides You Can't Fully See
Permanent = Expired
Canadian Ancestry
50 Arrows
Turnstile or "On The List"?
Last to Know
Behind the Wall
One AGENTS.md, every tool: how I stopped copy-pasting CLAUDE.md everywhere
Too potent to ship
The Gap Nobody Owns
Shared Operational Language
Your site works fine in a browser. AI agents can't use it.
Skills: Have < Use
Knowledge as Code: A Pattern for Knowledge Bases That Verify Themselves
EveryAILaw: A Structured Database of AI Compliance Obligations Across Jurisdictions
Skills Are Bets, Not Gates
I built an open spec because every bad 429 was costing me twice
Skills Ain't What They Used to Be
HardGuard25: A 25-character alphabet for human-readable unique IDs
A New Layer of Trust
The Verb is the Tell
NearCon 2026
The Rulebook Doesn't Exist Yet
Hackathon One
The Understanding Trap
Teach Your AI Coding Agent to Run Accessibility Audits
"Not My Job" is Predictive
Your AI Agent Skills Have a Version Control Problem
The Yes Problem
The Weight of Avoidance
The Handoff Gap
AI Tool Watch: Stop Googling 'Can I Use That AI Feature on the Free Plan'
I Wrote a Script to Fix Audible's Unreadable PDF Filenames
Rightness at Resolution
The Copilot Problem
How Do You Measure Whether Someone Is Actually Good at Working With AI?
The Great AI Misallocation
The One-Hour Year

202566

The Only Skill That Matters
Counting up 2025
29 issues. Top 10 most relevant patterns. Steal them for 2026.
AI Lives In The Default Path
Typecasting L&D as The AI Hype Department
Applying AI in Learning & Development
Managers over Models
Friction Creates Shape
Taiko at University of Utah
Synthetic Trust
PAICE.work Vision & Partnership whitepaper
Human Interface Fatigue
Confidence & Calibration
Halloweens
Immature AI Maturity
Success at the PAICE of Work
PAICE.work: People + AI Collaboration Effectiveness
Turbulent Measures
Signals & Subtractions — Special Edition
The Trust Gap
Podcast to YouTube
Tools Takeover Talent
Megabyte of Days
Substacking
Talking to AI Like It’s a Computer
AI Breaks the Training Workflow
Addition is easy
5% Success
95% failure
GPT-5 Changes the Game (Mostly Doesn't)
Security Isn't About Adding More
Easy Awry by LumpedIn
Issue 010
My Music YES!
Governance is Now a UX Problem
Utah Taiko Experience 3
Automated State
Align to the Spec, Not to the Prompt
Open, auditable AI stacks just shipped!
Signals and Subtractions
Culture is a Technical Dependency
Semantics Complete
When AI Outpaces Our Senses & Expectations
Signals & Subtractions Issue 005
AIdeation launched
Capoeira Mandinga Manti Batizado
issue004_org_chart_strategy
CAIO Copilot launched
Tool Choice Is Becoming Strategy
Signals & Subtractions – Issue 002
An Overdue Business Pivot
Signals & Subtractions Issue 001
The Difference Between Strategic Alignment and Decisioning Intelligence
Why Governance Breaks Under Pressure
Homophonic Antonyms
1st Place Float
Sam's Web Format Field Guide (2025)
Strong Reviews beat Weekly Reviews
Project Canon Forge
The Grand Plan
Inflation we can all count on
Reboot Number Six
The Change Threshold
45 days in on 2025
LLM Poem Cheese, Wine, and Whimsy
Perspectives on Exponential Change

202413

Wedding
Sam's Rails for Technology
Update - High School Reunion Edition
Living to 123
Reboot Number Five
How do we make people do stuff?
Information Inflation
People I want to talk to
Lost in Lingo, p2
Quit Screwing with Time
Call it Training
Lost in Lingo, p1
From HR to L&D

202232

Hiatus for 2023
Tools as Constraints in Instructional Design
Requiem for a Text Editor
Calling Training Names
Data Driven or Not?
1.5°C more and we're screwed
Broad Funnel, Tight Filter
Just dumb enough
We're about to be wrong
Advice for people managing learning programs
Water Availability & Storage
50 days of Health
How do I identify?
Being uninformed
What the US Constitution doesn't say
New report from the Social Security Trustees
College Catastrophe
5 Bullet Intro
10 Steps to Great Audio
Cutting through the skills hype
Debunking The Gain Myth
Evaluating a Cessna 150
It would take a decade to rebuild society
Why eLearning fails
Speaking at Empower HR Tech Americas
Later is Now
Doing Digital Security Daily
Afghans still need our help!
Raspberry Pi is 64-Bit now
Closing up when someone dies, part 2: Digital Identity
Closing up when someone dies, part 1: ASAP
The work is free

202135

Apocalypses Past
Obituary for my Mom
Movie Recommendation - 14 Peaks
Off to Groundschool
Finally backed up
What ever happened to Snap Synapse?
...And DOS of these UNOs!
Researchers don't just Google it
Data Te Ching, ch 9
Data Te Ching, ch 8
Data Te Ching, ch 7
Faster Braces?
Data Te Ching, ch 6
Why Measure Workplace Training?
Data Te Ching, ch 5
Colemak
The Tytler Cycle
Data Te Ching, ch 4
Data Te Ching, ch 3
The Keyboardio 100
Why Leadership Training is Pseudoscience
Data Te Ching, ch 2
"Helping Deciders Decide" for ISPI Hampton Roads
Data Te Ching, ch 1
AI is Eyeglasses
TV Watches Us Back
Ground Floor Learning
100 days of Health - 2021
Now is not the time for certainty
Shoulda Woulda Coulda - NZ edition
Currency doesn't actually store value
Annual disaster mitigation recommendations
Where to start with Learning Analytics
Perpetual Questions
Bidding on Video Production Projects

202015

Best of 2020
Decisions for Other People
95% correct
Civil Society circa 2020
You support what you eat
Don't be a computer
Answer Key Standard
Turning down $40K of SBA loan
Weirdo
Temporarily Pre-Broken
More than it costs me
How to Score Assessments the Non-Dumb Way
Plant-based Success
Requiem for a fallen drone
Annual Donations - 2019

201917

The End
You didn't forget, you had a \#ReminderFail
Care enough to question Training
Answer Keys for Fun & Profit
All information expires, so...
Making Good Tests
Estonia, e-Residency, and what I believe will come
Healthcare Elsewhere: Medical
Panamanian Residency
The Best Unique Identifiers that I can identify
Competitive Failure
Fringer
How to be sick
Healthcare Elsewhere: Dental
Music Listening in the Modern Age
What I do, enjoy, & believe
Why I Do Social Media Fasts

20185

Best By Date for Training
You made a course!
Why Measure Training?
Data doesn't tell you where to go
Navigation of Video eLearning

20172

Learning Asset Framework -- A Proposal in Process
Podcasting for Learning & Development

20164

Not Even Wrong
ATD 2016 as a New Speaker
My Excellent Adventures in Learning & Development
How to Produce 90 eLearning Videos in 8 Weeks

20151

One Format To Rule Them All!

Tag: writing

10 items with this tag.

Sep 05, 2026
Don't cry, darling, it's AGI alright
Aug 09, 2026
On Slop
- writing
- ai
Aug 03, 2026
The Language That Does Not Yet Exist
Jul 29, 2026
Writing Quality After AI
Sep 15, 2025
Substacking
- writing
Jul 28, 2025
Utah Taiko Experience 3
- writing
Jul 15, 2025
Signals and Subtractions
- writing
Apr 28, 2025
Project Canon Forge
- writing
Feb 12, 2025
LLM Poem Cheese, Wine, and Whimsy
- ai
- writing
Jun 30, 2018
Data doesn't tell you where to go
- writing

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