The Goodwill Ledger
Essays on AI, leadership, trust and the future of institutions.
In an age of accelerating intelligence, the most important question is not only what we can build, but what we can be trusted to lead.
This is a collection of essays on how leaders, organisations and societies can build trust, direct intelligence and create long-term institutional value.
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Accountable Intelligence
What replaces span of control.
The next decade will retire span of control as a serious unit of management. Not because hierarchy will end, or because reporting lines will dissolve, but because the unit no longer measures the thing that matters.
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What the Logo Means
Once the site was designed and built, I needed a mark for it. I did not just want a beautiful logo. I wanted a meaningful one.
Why and How I Built This Site
For most of my career as a software engineer, the guiding principle was to write generic code. Functions should be reusable. Software should serve many cases, not one. That made sense when writing code was expensive, both in money and in cognitive load.
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