Automation Delegates Execution. It Cannot Delegate Responsibility
The legal and organizational consequences of a distinction most companies are ignoring.
The Divine Smith
Bleustein-Blanchet Brought Two Things Back from New York
Marcel Bleustein brought two methods back from New York: data and observation. The industry kept the first. This piece is about what restoring the second could look like.
Preparing public knowledge for AI agents
Sphere is an independent experiment in agent-readable publishing. It asks what public knowledge should look like when the first reader may be an AI agent: structured, licensed, provenance-aware, citable, and accountable.
Sphere v1: publishing built for agents, hosted by you
In June I described Sphere as an experiment in agent-readable publishing. Today I am releasing v1: a fragment contract, a self-hostable node you deploy to your own Cloudflare account, and a local Claude plugin. No platform in the middle. Intelligence before monetization.
When Consensus Is Not Knowledge
Most systems that collect many judgments still do the simplest possible thing: they average them. REIM starts from a different premise. Agreement is not enough; we also need to know who, or what, is doing the agreeing.
