Field Notes

Observations from inside the machine.

Short essays on enterprise AI, forward deployed product work, customer reality, systems thinking, and the conditions that make execution either easier or unnecessarily painful.

Enterprise AI
May 11, 2026

Even the Future Has a Backlog

The blockers are never where you expect them. I've known this for years. I just didn't expect my first week at a new job to prove it quite so efficiently.

Enterprise AI

Most Enterprise AI Problems Aren’t AI Problems

The biggest blockers to enterprise AI adoption usually aren’t model quality or infrastructure. They’re alignment, trust, workflow design, and organizational ambiguity.