The Dialogue Layer

Knowledge lives in the conversations running beneath the formal systems. Organizations are dialogic systems, and the action happens in a layer most leaders don't see or design for.

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Das Man as Loss Function

Why does AI prose smell like AI? LLM output is not inauthentic speech but Heidegger's 'das Man' with no 'Dasein' behind it. Coauthored with Claude Fable.

Russ Fugal

Organizational Transformation Specialist

The Case for @ You

The atproto community is debating what to call its accounts. The right answer isn’t a noun for the infrastructure — it’s a pronoun for the person. #atproto #atmosphere #atdev

Russ Fugal

Organizational Transformation Specialist

The Knot That Sleeps

I didn’t want to buy a server. So my self-hosted Tangled knot runs on a laptop, serves git repos through the AT Protocol, and goes offline when the lid closes. Then I read Harari’s Nexus — and realized the ephemerality wasn’t a compromise. It was a feature.

Russ Fugal

Organizational Transformation Specialist