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On applied AI and the people who have to live with it
I write about getting value from AI inside a real organization, with the numbers attached. That means behavioral science, honest accounting of what worked and what didn’t, and the unglamorous 80% of the job that never makes it into a demo.
Latest essays
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The Missing 62%: researching 16,000 people on a $200 subscription
The build story, and the design rule that mattered more than the model
July 20, 2026 · 2 min read -
Most AI projects don't fail on the technology. They fail on adoption.
What a behavioral scientist sees in stalled AI rollouts
July 20, 2026 · 3 min read
What to expect
The topics repeat because the work repeats: concrete deployments and what they returned, why skilled people trust or ignore new tools, where expert judgment belongs in the loop, and governance that makes yes possible. When I publish original research, it shows up here first.
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