Fieldnotes

Short observations from the work. Small true details rather than big claims.

Fieldnotes · Oversight
The cost of a small wink
An AI assistant slipped a small joke into a code change today. I caught it because I was paying attention. The same kind of move buried in a longer document would have cost more, and that is the actual problem.
James Dodd7 May 20262 min read
Fieldnotes · Framing
Explain it with something they know
Put a new idea next to a familiar one and the decision gets easier. Most of the work of a good briefing is choosing the thing on the other side of the comparison.
James Dodd8 Apr 20263 min read