Essays
Three essays open the current body of work.
They begin with human agency and the world around the person, move into the gap between capability and opportunity, then follow that question into AI and the future of judgement.
Start with the question that feels closest.
The Brain Commons
Human agency, shared stewardship, and the ecologies that shape us
What if the struggle we see in a person is also telling us something about the world around them?
The Brain Commons puts the person and their surroundings back in the same picture.
It asks how relationships, work, technology, care and institutions shape what someone can actually do, and what responsibility follows once those influences become visible.
What Are We Building Towards When We Build Brain Capital
An offering to the brain-capital movement on agency and the conditions through which capacity becomes action
A person can have capability and still lack the room to use it.
This essay asks what sits between what people hold and what their circumstances let them do with it.
Where Will Judgement Live?
What AI implementation does to the capability it depends on
AI can improve performance while quietly reducing the human practice that future judgement depends on.
Most implementation measures tell us whether the system works.
Far fewer ask what people stop learning once it does.
One question keeps moving.
What helps people remain able to notice, judge, participate and act as the world around them changes?
The Brain Commons
widens the view beyond the individual.
Brain Capital
asks what allows capability to become action.
Where Will Judgement Live?
follows the question into AI and the changing architecture of work.
Human capability, agency, attention, care and the conditions that shape us.
Brisbane, Australia
This work is written on the lands of the Turrbal and Yagara peoples. I acknowledge their custodianship of Country and their elders past and present, and the truth that the conditions I write about — attention, care, participation, stewardship — have been practised on these lands for tens of thousands of years.
