Mechanisms before slogans
Writing
I write about what structures ask people to carry, who had authority to design them differently and why the same problems keep returning under new names.
Selected essays
Everything is context
Evan Micheal Foster explains why context-aware AI changes what organizations can afford to classify as useless information.
Read essay →Overload is structural, not a personal failure
Why productivity advice fails when organizations assign responsibility without authority, evidence, or real capacity.
Read essay →When finance stops measuring and starts governing
How financial information can become the default authority over operational, capacity, learning, and external value.
Read essay →Responsibility without authority is a structural trap
Why accountability fails when the person carrying the result cannot change the evidence, resources, approvals, or tradeoffs shaping it.
Read essay →What I write about
Most of my writing starts from a concrete condition: a staff member rebuilding a report because the evidence lives in three systems, a manager carrying responsibility without authority, a board making financial decisions without operational context or a family adjusting its sense of time because illness changed the background.
The subjects vary, but the underlying question is usually the same. What is the structure asking people to carry, and who had the authority to design it differently?
I try to write plainly. Making a mechanism visible does not make the idea smaller. It makes the idea usable.