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Agentic Labour: When Work Becomes Executable
Published: at 06:30 PMSoftware first reduced coordination costs. Now autonomous agents begin to execute parts of labor itself. This changes the structure of work without eliminating it.
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The Platform as Proto-Firm
Published: at 08:15 PMPlatforms are not the disappearance of the corporation. They are a reconfiguration of how coordination occurs within a corporate shell.
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The Boundary of the Firm in a Digital Age
Published: at 06:30 PMIf firms exist because coordination is costly, what happens when coordination becomes cheaper again? The boundary of the firm is not fixed.
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The Innovator's Dilemma
Published: at 08:15 PMWhen coordination costs shift, firm boundaries should adjust. But mature corporations are optimised for a cost structure that no longer holds — and their own incentives prevent adaptation.
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Metrics Are Projection
Published: at 10:00 AMMetrics don't measure reality — they project it. As systems become more autonomous, projection design matters more than model intelligence.
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Agent Experimentation and Innovation at the Edge
Published: at 10:00 AMExecution, collaboration, and ecosystems: three edges where agent innovation is actually happening — and what it means for building durable, human-centered systems.
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An Intuitive Journey Through Statistics & Hypothesis Testing
Published: at 10:00 AMAn Intuitive Journey Through Statistics & Hypothesis Testing in a coffee shop
Recent Posts
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When Corporations Became Too Big
Published: at 07:15 PMThe managerial corporation solved coordination at scale. But hierarchy has structural limits — and the same mechanisms that enabled growth eventually constrained it.
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The Rise of the Managerial Corporation
Published: at 06:30 PMCorporations did not just reduce transaction costs. In the 20th century, they became the dominant institution for organising production, concentrating capital, and coordinating labour at scale.
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Why Corporations Exist: A Coasean Foundation
Published: at 10:00 AMCorporations did not emerge by accident. They are coordination machines. In 2026, as transaction costs fall, we revisit why they exist — and what might be changing.
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From Process Managers to Stable Agent Workflows
Published: at 10:00 AMAgent workflows feel new, but the stability problems they face are not. Here's how decades of integration architecture apply to building production agent systems.