Institutions were built to resist change. That was the point. But in a world where evidence accumulates faster than governance adapts, the lag is no longer a feature.
Writings
Essays, notes, and thinking on technology, institutions, and design.
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The Institutional Lag Problem: Why Organizations Can't Move at the Speed of Evidence
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Applied Design Research in High-Stakes Environments
What happens when you bring participatory design methods into systems where the stakes are life, liberty, or significant material harm? A field report.
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On Legibility and the Limits of Dashboards
Every dashboard is an argument about what matters. Most people who build them don't realize they're making one.
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Signal and Noise in Educational Measurement: A Practitioner's Skepticism
The problem with standardized metrics is not that they're imprecise — it's that their precision becomes its own kind of distortion. We optimize for the signal until the signal is all that's left.
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Designing for Trust in Public-Facing Systems
Trust is not a feature you add. It's an emergent property of a thousand smaller decisions made under constraint. Here's what that looks like in practice.
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AI Procurement in the Public Sector: What the Vendors Won't Tell You
The RFP process was not designed with machine learning systems in mind. That gap between procurement language and model behavior is where accountability goes to die.
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Three Things I Got Wrong About Data Literacy Training
A candid recounting of assumptions I carried into practitioner workshops that the practitioners promptly dismantled.
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The Case for Slower Research: Velocity, Validity, and What We Trade Away
Academic research is under pressure to be faster, more translatable, more immediately useful. That pressure is not neutral. Something is getting lost.
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