The Heroism Tax
The difference between a high-stakes operation and a fragile one isn't effort — it's whether the procedure is a suggestion or a gate.
ESSAYS
The Arguments
Each essay stands alone. Together they build the case for why structure beats intelligence, why authored beats inferred, and why six primitives are all you need.
The Foundations
Agents Are the Wrong Abstraction
The AI industry is converging on 'agents' as the default abstraction for automating operations. This is the wrong level of abstraction.
Why Six
The origin story of the six primitives framework — how it started with three concepts and grew to six through contact with real operations.
Your AI Doesn't Need to Think. It Needs to See.
A rules engine needs structured input. The real world is unstructured. AI bridges that gap — not by thinking, but by seeing.
Your Actors Aren't All Human
An Actor in an authored operation is any entity — human or not — that can be delegated to, holds qualifications, has availability, and is accountable to the ledger. The rename from Person to Actor is the framework admitting in public what it already hinted at: the system actor was always there; we just didn't make it first-class.