Every system makes mistakes. What separates a trustworthy one is what it does next. A Correction of Error is a structured, no-blame admission: what broke, why the system allowed it, and what changes so the whole class of bug can't return. In our harness the AI files them unprompted, against a written standard, including failures nobody would have caught. Prevention isn't maturity. Honest…

We talk a lot about “humans in the loop.” But humans get tired. Humans rubber-stamp. Humans become bottlenecks. The real challenge is preserving humanity in the loop: truthfulness, accountability, craftsmanship, humility, and trust. I explore how a single AI agent can build and review its own work when guided by shared tenets and honest retrospection.

Does Compliance Work Have a Lifecycle? I Think It Does.

A few days ago, Anne DeTraglia published a thought-provoking piece, Is My Job Bullshit? Why AI Might Actually Have the Answer, exploring whether certain corporate roles deliver genuine value, and whether AI might help us find out. Her framing draws on anthropologist David Graeber's concept of "bullshit jobs" and lands on an…

This is the welcome video to my course on cRisk Academy. Check it out.

For decades we've measured control maturity by one yardstick: more automation, more prevention. But a perfectly optimized control can stay "effective" right up until it fails catastrophically. A 70-year-old theory, cybernetics, points to what comes next in the age of AI.

A working note on file-based project management, and why a flat tree of markdown files outperforms every kanban board tool I've used.