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Tom is currently on holiday, but I'm still sending him stuff like the above diagram as we build FIELD STATION in an intentional way. So I should say, right off the bat, that this is my view of what we're doing.

I've been collecting writing about using AI with the Viable System Model (VSM) in this Are.na collection, and published an essay entitled Governance Is Not a Dashboard. This note is an attempt to work in the open, thinking about how to apply the VSM to build a sustainable business where the "requisite variety" can, in part, be met by AI agents.

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In a recent note, I included a graphic which mentioned how AuDHD-ers might have perfect pattern recognition but have terrible working memory. I followed that up with another note which discussed a system I used to use of basically "writing everything down in a searchable way".

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First of all, as a man of a certain age, can I just say how much I love the Teletext vibe of this site? It's comparing different AI models versus straight FIFA rankings, versus the perspective of a single human, in terms of predicting the outcome of World Cup 2026 football matches.

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A follow-up to [this note] given Anthropic's recent announcement that they're going to require government-issued ID to use "certain features" of their models. They're using none other than Peter Thiel-backed Persona for this. Ugh.

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