IDEAS & RESEARCH
Ideas for developing human capability in the age of AI.
Essays, talks, visual models, and research exploring how people learn, develop judgment, and remain capable as artificial intelligence changes the nature of work and learning.
Some ideas begin as newsletter essays. Others become frameworks, visual explanations, talks, or practical tools. Together, they form an evolving body of work about judgment, trust, wonder, learning, leadership, and organizational capability.
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Start with the question closest to your work, then follow the ideas into essays, frameworks, research, and practical resources.
AI & HUMAN CAPABILITY
I’m trying to make sense of AI.
Explore what AI changes about learning, work, expertise, judgment, and the capabilities people still need to develop.
THINKING & JUDGMENT
I’m interested in how people think.
Follow ideas about wonder, reasoning, language, interpretation, and how human judgment becomes visible.
LEARNING & ASSESSMENT
I help people learn.
Find work on engagement, assessment, visible thinking, feedback, course design, and learning in the age of AI.
LEADERSHIP & ORGANIZATIONS
I lead people through change.
Explore trust, organizational learning, AI adoption, enablement, change, and the conditions that allow capability to grow.
RESOURCE HUB
A Visual Library for Better Thinking
Explore frameworks, field guides, diagrams, reflection tools, and practical resources designed to strengthen learning, leadership, judgment, and AI implementation.
ORIGINAL FRAMEWORKS
Frameworks & Visual Models
A few central models for making learning, judgment, engagement, and human capability easier to see and design for.
Assessment Visibility Matrix™
A way to examine what an assessment reveals about reasoning, criteria, decisions, and actual learner capability.
Four Conditions of Real Engagement
Agency, belonging, competence, and purpose as conditions that support meaningful thinking, participation, and growth.
SIGNAL
A framework for surfacing selection, intention, generation, negotiation, analysis, and learning within a process.
Making Judgment Visible
A model for designing moments where reasoning, interpretation, choice, and revision become observable.
FEATURED PRESENTATION
From Prompts to Partners:
Context-Aware AI Agent Design
A presentation on context-aware AI in instructional design—and how intelligent workflows can streamline, humanize, and standardize learning design.
RECENT WORK
Latest Thinking
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