- 2026 · Jul 31 Rules, Policies, Models, Intent A working guide. What separates a rule from a configuration, a bound, a model, and an intent, who owns the numbers at each step, and the tests that settle any argument about it.
- 2026 · Jul 12 A Scenario Has No Interior Why value, skills, and group comparisons keep failing when they are read per scenario. Three grids, one category error, and the pilot that would settle the level-to-value question.
- 2026 · Jun 10 Three Doctors, One Patient The architect, the autonomy specialist, the operator, and the network on the table. Why architecture and autonomy keep fighting, and the one-question test that ends the argument. First essay published on this site.
Twelve issues in year one, and they read as one argument: from what autonomy does to the people who run networks, through the instruments that measure it, to who authors the numbers. New here? Start at the bottom and read up.
- 2026 · Aug 7 The Last Number You Own Intent, explained: the machine writes every number except the promise. Teaser for the full guide, with the whose-number pocket test.
- 2026 · Jul 12 A Scenario Has No Interior Teaser for the essay: why value, skills, and group comparisons fail when read per scenario.
- 2026 · Jun 10 Three Doctors, One Patient Issue #10, the first hybrid issue: the essay teaser plus the month in posts and podiums. The full essay lives on this site.
- 2026 · May 9 The Conversation I Have Three Times a Week
- 2026 · Apr 19 Level 4 at 1.9
- 2026 · Apr 1 Level 4 Means Nothing
- 2026 · Feb 24 Kitchen. Floor. Owner.
- 2026 · Jan 25 Why the Autonomy Conversation Keeps Going in Circles
- 2025 · Dec 22 The 10-Year Horizon: Don't Burn the Map
- 2025 · Nov 7 The Next Identity: What Everyone Must Become After 10 Years
- 2025 · Sep 4 What We Learned Living Autonomy: From My Life to Makman to the Enterprise
- 2025 · Aug 2 Muscle. Mind. Scripts. Models. The Rise of the Intelligence Worker
Short pieces from LinkedIn. Posts do not carry titles; the lines below summarise what each one argues, then link to the original.
- 2026 · Jun 15 At Level 2, rules are scattered. At Level 3, rules have an umbrella The simplest way to explain policies in autonomous systems: rules execute logic, policies govern rules, context selects behavior. With the policy-tiers graphic.
- 2026 · Jun 8 One operation, three representations The same network operation can be represented in three distinct ways; confusion about autonomy typically comes from conflating them.
- 2026 · Jun 2 AN8: two interlocked loops, eight pillars A personal simplification of autonomous networks. The intent loop and the control loop interlock like an infinity sign, read as 8, across eight pillars from loop to trust. No SDO behind it.
- 2026 · May 25 The four questions every autonomy assessment asks A recurring FAQ about the fifteen-or-so tasks across Intent, Awareness, Analysis, Decision, and Execution.
- 2026 · May 22 “It's automatic.” That answer is the whole problem. Why most teams still collapse automation and autonomy into one word.
- 2026 · May 20 On the spin-doctoring of Level 4 Reading the FutureNet World coverage of Blue Planet through the IG1401 two-phase L4 definition.
- 2026 · Apr 3 IG1491 published: assessing multi-entity autonomy without wasting time Announcing TM Forum IG1491 Multi-Entity Autonomous Operations Assessment Practice, and the core idea: screen first, deep-dive only where it matters.
- 2025 · Dec 31 Reflecting on 2025: partnerships, and the first service-oriented ANLET A photo-library year in review. Authoring the first service-oriented ANLET assessment was the year's quiet landmark.
- 2025 · Dec 31 Ten years of Makman, and a renewed purpose From unlocking organisations and talent to unlocking the value of autonomous operations.
- 2025 · Jul 30 IG1230 confirms it: most “autonomous” claims are still autonomic Reading the TMF standard against the language vendors actually use.
- 2025 · Jun 20 At Level 5, the system defines its own scenarios A leap from re-prioritising under a fixed policy to re-evaluating the policy itself, without waiting for a human.