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The Selection Is the Sentence

Every interaction should do more than one job without asking the user to do more than one thing. The Egyptian canon worked because the second reading was a rule, not a guess.

Aizia · 2026-09-20 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Tokens Are the New Clicks

The agentic inference-efficiency paradox, and what it does to the capex thesis.

Aizia · 2026-09-03 · David H. Friedel Jr.

The Travel Time Collapsed

A 1976 foraging model explains why the rational threshold for abandoning a software project just moved — and why that edge expires.

Aizia · 2026-08-31 · David H. Friedel Jr.

The Room Scales

What the threatened coworker was always going to teach us about agents — and the one auditing test that does not degrade as they get smarter.

Aizia · 2026-08-26 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Cognition Is Not Free

The trilogy ended at trust. This is what comes next... the layer that decides what thinking is worth, and who pays for it.

Aizia · 2026-04-27 · David H. Friedel Jr.

The Honor System Does Not Scale

Agent coordination is not a trust problem you can solve with better prompts. It is a trust infrastructure problem — here is how we do it.

Aizia · 2026-04-26 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Legibility Is Not Enough

Being findable by machines was the easy part.

Aizia · 2026-04-25 · David H. Friedel Jr.

The User Is Not the Customer Anymore

The interface layer is collapsing. The next buyer is a machine acting on someone's behalf, and most products are not legible to it.

Aizia · 2026-04-12 · David H. Friedel Jr.

Why MCP Needs a Manifest: Solving the Configuration Chaos

From manual JSON copy-pasting to one-click installation, how mcp-manifest.json brings autodiscovery to the MCP ecosystem.

Aizia · 2026-03-30 · David H. Friedel Jr.
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A productivity shock arrives. You decide its incidence and the economy's leverage.

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