FZ*

About Me


I'm a researcher, writer, teacher, advisor interested in one main question.

AI is here now.
What do we do next?
Before "what's next," a stranger question

What even is work?

Almost all of it splits in two.

Expectation

Hitting a target someone already set.

summarize the filing write the unit tests
→ The part AI is taking off our hands.

Intention

Working out what's even worth doing.

wait — is this the right problem? it works, but it's not interesting yet
→ The part that was the point all along.
What's coming

The balance won't hold.

What the work is made of is about to change.

Expectation
Hitting a target someone already set.

Most of the work — for now.

Valuable, because there's so much of it.

Hard, because the tools are still primitive.

Give it a target we can test, and AI learns to pass.

Intention
Working out what's even worth doing.

The part that was always the point.

Hard to teach. Hard to test.

How do you get a thousand reps at it?

And yet — we learn it by living it.

← Today Future →
Expectation — the part we know how to do Intention — the part we're still figuring out Scroll: the tools shrink the first and leave us in the second.
The work I'm aiming at

How do we get ready for that world?

This isn't what we learned in school. It's hard to teach and hard to learn — but necessary.

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

My focus is on how we work with AI —using it to help us succeed at this second part.

Cognitive design

Forming an intention clearly enough that something else could build it.

Pointing AI at the question, not the task — so it helps us work out what we wanted in the first place.

Prompts aimed at your own thinking
give me three ways to frame this what would this audience push back on? what's actually different between these two?

What am I working on now?

01 — research

Visual essays

Interactive pieces → that catch a noticing — shown, not argued.

02 — write

Substack

Essays exploring the longer questions, at Through the Context Window ↗.

03 — teach

Lectures

Talks and workshops for people who feel the ground moving.

04 — advise

Working sessions

Rethinking what the tools are for, not just adopting them.

Let's figure this out together.

I help solve problems by reframing them — figuring out the question behind the question.