BhuvaneshSelvaraj

§ 02Notes

Arguments in progress.

Short essays. Each one makes a claim I am willing to be wrong about in writing. The thesis is the spine. These are how the spine gets sharpened.

2026

Apr 18
The workflow fallacy
Why nine in ten AI projects ship cleanly and change nothing.
strategydiagnosis
8 min
Apr 8
Decisions, not workflows
How to find your company's load-bearing decision in an afternoon.
frameworksdiagnosis
6 min
Mar 27
The loose and the tight
A taxonomy of which decisions to tighten with AI and which to leave deliberately loose.
frameworksjudgment
7 min
Mar 12
The quiet software
Why the next decade of valuable AI work will look more like ERP than like ChatGPT.
productprediction
6 min
Feb 26
Against AI readiness
Most readiness assessments are an elaborate way to avoid making the hard call.
diagnosisanti-patterns
5 min
Feb 11
The headcount question
A more honest way to think about AI and people, which is also a more useful one.
org designjudgment
6 min

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