We Are Arguing About AI Governance Without a Single Number

How many of the consequential actions your agents took last week were backed by an authorization decision that was actually evaluated at the moment of…

Jul 11 • pierAldi

Let’s get to work… before AI clocks in and replaces your lunch break.

Operational How-To Guide — CTO Briefing Objective

Jul 10 • pierAldi

You Can’t Bill What You Can’t Authenticate

Guardrails are an authorization problem. That’s also where the meter is being built.

Jul 9 • pierAldi

I Don’t Like Agents. Windows Does

We keep debating whether people want agents. Microsoft may be rebuilding the operating system around the assumption that they are coming anyway

Jul 8 • pierAldi

June 2026

The Third Flock: The Great AI Backpedal

Or the great retreat; if only for optics

Jun 23 • pierAldi

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Now for the sequel

Last weekend’s discussion was about Token Maxxing

Jun 13 • pierAldi

May 2026

Sheep and Token Maxxing

The article is really about something much older than AI.

May 30 • pierAldi

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You Are Not an Employee. You Are a Sovereign.

If you make it so

May 11 • pierAldi

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Polymaths Are Your Special Forces

Mao codified it. T.E. Lawrence demonstrated it. Sun Tzu prefigured it.

May 8 • pierAldi

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Why Self-Ownership Has to Be the Answer

How to Own Your Brain At Work

May 7 • pierAldi

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February 2026

A Story: Why J.R.R. Tolkien Would Feel at Home in the AI Shire

Choose your next words carefully...

Feb 12 • pierAldi

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January 2026

INTENT BEFORE AI

A Manifesto for Deploying AI Without Losing Control

Jan 31 • pierAldi

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