Mechanisms before slogans
Writing
I write about duplicate reporting, hidden correction work, responsibility without authority, financial dominance, governed AI context, and institutional capacity.
Selected essays
Everything is context
Evan Micheal Foster explains why context-aware AI changes what organizations can afford to classify as useless information.
Read essay →Overload is structural, not a personal failure
Why productivity advice fails when organizations assign responsibility without authority, evidence, or real capacity.
Read essay →When finance stops measuring and starts governing
How financial information can become the default authority over operational, capacity, learning, and external value.
Read essay →Responsibility without authority is a structural trap
Why accountability fails when the person carrying the result cannot change the evidence, resources, approvals, or tradeoffs shaping it.
Read essay →What I write about
Most of my writing starts from a concrete condition: a staff member rebuilding a report because the evidence lives in three systems, a manager carrying responsibility without authority, or a board making financial decisions without operational context.
The subjects vary, but I ask the same concrete questions: who owns the work, who can approve a change, which records count as evidence, what capacity is available, and who absorbs the cost when those fields are missing?
I use specific roles, records, approvals, workloads, dates, and consequences so the reader can test the claim against an actual organization.