Content
Field notes
Short pieces on automation and digital systems, written from the operations side rather than the tooling side. Nothing is published here yet — the first notes are being written, and posts will appear on this page as they go out.
Themes
What the writing covers
Four running threads, revisited rather than announced once.
THM—001
The cost of manual work
What an unanswered enquiry actually costs, and how to measure a repeating task before deciding whether it is worth automating.
THM—002
Automation, written plainly
Workflows described the way an operator would explain them: trigger, steps, result. No tool worship, no diagrams nobody reads.
THM—003
Where AI earns its place
The narrow jobs models are genuinely good at — reading, classifying, drafting — and the jobs where a rule is the better answer.
THM—004
Building in public
Notes from live projects: what shipped, what had to be rebuilt, and the judgement calls behind both.
Meanwhile
Where to follow the work
Until the archive opens, project records are the most complete account of what is being built.