Books
In print
A practitioner's book on partnerships, a forthcoming examination of AI and power, and two volumes of poetry — with an open chapter and selections to read here.
The New Rules of Partnerships: Winning Through Collaboration in a World of Scarcity, Speed, and AI
A practitioner's book on collaboration in a world of scarcity, speed, and AI. The opening chapter is free to read here.
Second edition forthcoming.
Chapter 1
Machines of Tomorrow, Vol 2: AI and the Road to Totalitarianism
An examination of how AI's architecture and orchestration structurally concentrate power — and why the governance choices made now will determine whether that power remains accountable or undermines both liberty and the autonomy of the individual.
Coming 2027.
Preview
AI is structurally collectivist: trained on vast, aggregated datasets and optimized to detect population-level patterns, modern systems privilege statistical norms over individual nuance. This volume argues those engineering choices do more than mirror consensus — they institutionalize it.
Repeated exposure to algorithmic framing, personalized nudges, and consensus-oriented recommendations creates feedback loops that normalize collective judgments; over time these loops shift epistemic authority from persons and local institutions to platforms and models.
Culture functions as a social operating system — reducing friction, lowering transaction costs, and preserving core norms — and different cultural architectures interact with AI differently. Cohesive, high-conformity, or collectivist and top-down societies may integrate AI governance more smoothly, while pluralist, multicultural democracies face a governance handicap: diverse value systems make it harder to settle on algorithmic defaults.
The danger is structural, not merely ideological: AI centralizes information, prediction, and control in ways that magnify concentrations of power. The political choices made now will largely determine whether that leverage is distributed, constrained, and accountable or captured and weaponized. This is a one-shot historical moment.
— from the abstract
The Road to Singapore Leads Through Mississippi, Part 1
Poetry. Asia lived, not analyzed. Selected poems are open to read here.
Signed copies are available on request.
From Part One
By a mouth that does not crave,
To the place that’s dark
And filled with light
Do I tumble.
— from “Sanzyuusan-gendo”
The Road to Singapore Leads Through Mississippi, Part 2
Poetry. The second volume. Selected poems are open to read here.
Signed copies are available on request.
From Part Two
bent softly toward the time to come?
The tide does not explain its swerve—
it simply rises, and we become.
— from “Of Hakodate, Hijikata and Heliotropism”