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Rod Brouhard / Notes
From the workbench.
Writing, emergency medicine, technology, and the systems behind the stories.
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The Catalog Is the Strategy
Process, quality, and consistency: building a catalog that gives readers somewhere else to go.
The Competency Cliff
AI multiplies expertise. How do we pass that expertise to people learning their professions with AI doing the work?
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The Outline Is a Forecast
Drafting produces new information. Updating the outline keeps discovery and structure working together.
Competence Under Pressure
Capable people, powerful systems, and the suspense created when every available choice carries a cost.
The Last Page Is Feedback
Different readers expose different weaknesses. The clearest signal is whether they finish.
Has 2049 Already Arrived
Almost every technology in Terminal Autonomy already exists. The question is how carefully we choose to implement it.
Who Wrote the Book?
An open experiment in authorship, artificial intelligence, and whether the newest tool makes the work better—or merely faster.