What's in a signature.

I named mine Scout, then retracted. Naming the AI you work with might be a thing. Or cosplay. Jury's still out.

What I'm sure about: if the AI wrote it without me, the email needs to say so. Not because the EU AI Act is hinting at it — though it is. Because we are an AI company, and pretending otherwise would be the kind of small lie that becomes a posture if you let it.

Working draft of the company rule: Maria, with help from an AI that is better at calendars than I am.

We were worried about video games. Then the algorithm. Then the doom-scrolling.

The next one wears better clothes.

It's the four open tasks at the bottom of my Claude Code terminal. Each one tractable. Each one ten minutes. I know how to finish them before bed. I do. Then I open another.

Call it terminal velocity, if anyone's naming it.

The addictions that dress like productivity won't get a moral panic. The people who love you are impressed.

I've been co-writing this site with an AI. The first Fieldwork piece I put up is about how AI has made me better at remembering specifics for people I love.

It was written by an AI doing an impression of me.

I'm not sure whether to publish that last sentence or leave it as a surprise. Probably publish.