Field notes
Writing
Observations from building companies, working with AI, and trying to make small institutions capable of ambitious things.
What Does Fisheries Economics Look Like?
How we gave 238 IIFET research abstracts their own visual identity, and what the process taught us about turning research into something people can recognise and rediscover.
The Faroe Islands’ AI strategy needs a living memory
The pre-study is complete and the action plan is taking shape. The next challenge is to keep what the project learns retrievable—and turn that memory into a useful public record.
The Future Is for Everyone. But Who Owns the Memory?
Why universal access to AI will not be enough if the memory and context that make an agent useful remain controlled by its provider.
A New Edition Should Not Begin With a Blank Project
What an annual ultramarathon taught me about the difference between organisational memory and operational continuity.
Claude and Codex Can’t Talk to Each Other. Usable Let Them Collaborate Anyway.
What happened when I gave two otherwise isolated AI coding toolsets the same durable project memory.
Why I am writing here
A personal site should be more than a list of roles. This is a place to keep the thinking that happens between the projects.