Field Notes is an ongoing technical journal documenting work at the intersection of creative technology applications, scientific communication, media systems, AI workflows, and digital infrastructure.
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- July 18, 2026
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A deliberately ambiguous trailhead into the Field Notes archive: AI systems, live production, strategic signal detection, semantic search, responsible web work, and the human judgment behind the machinery.
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OpenAI Build Week: What Would You Ask Sam?OpenAI emailed me about Build Week with four days left, which meant choosing between several questionable Codex projects and figuring out how to make a meaningful addition to SamNav —an application that was already built, deployed,…
4 min
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Navigation for the End TimesSamNav is a tiny independent index for Sam Altman’s blog, built because the posts are worth reading but the navigation is almost comically minimal. It adds search, topics, reading paths, related posts, and an admittedly dry Navigation…
6 min
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Expertise Without PermissionA working-class reflection on AI, expertise, and gatekeeping. The piece argues that expertise is real, but access to it has always been shaped by class, credentials, and permission. AI disrupts that arrangement by letting more people…
9 min
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A Machine for Cross-Examining My GreedSignal Desk is a local AI-powered investment research desk I built precisely because I don’t know enough about investing to trust my own instincts. It turns scattered curiosity about AI companies, infrastructure, robotics, sensors,…
6 min
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The Ghost SwitcherPart three closes the series by moving from prototype to stakes: a real venue-network failure in London where the remote producer was disconnected, the stream dropped, and the online audience was left staring into the void. From that…
10 min
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The Show Has a SpinePart two follows the project from portable livestream workflow into live system architecture, opening with a makeshift hotel-room lab in Killarney where OBS, ATEM control, testing sources, and early automation experiments began…
9 min
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Signal to Strategy: From Scientific Activity to Demand IntelligenceScientific activity is not the same thing as scientific demand. This article argues that publications, grants, registrations, abstracts, and engagement metrics only become strategically useful when interpreted together, classified…
3 min
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Signal to Strategy: Why Scientific Classification is More than a Labeling ExerciseScientific classification is more than tagging content after the fact. This article argues that classification should function as an interpretive layer inside the data architecture, giving messy scientific and operational records a…
3 min
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Signal to Strategy: Why Scientific Demand is Difficult to DetectScientific demand is difficult to detect because it rarely appears as a single clean metric. By the time it shows up in registrations, abstracts, sponsor interest, or meeting-planning conversations, the most useful window for…
3 min