The Library
A shelf of quiet writing.
Now and then a partner sets down what the work has taught us. These are our published pieces and field memos, short, plain, and meant to be useful long after the systems they describe are gone.
| Title | Dek | Filed |
|---|---|---|
| On the Half-Life of a Format | Why the documents you store today must be read by software not yet written. | Mar 2026 |
| The Auditor as Reader | Writing systems plainly enough to be explained aloud across a table. | Nov 2025 |
| Gardening, Not Building | The case for spending most of your budget after the launch. | Aug 2025 |
| Side by Side, Until They Agree | A method for migrating records without losing a single line. | Apr 2025 |
| Provenance Beside the Number | Storing where a figure came from in the same breath as the figure. | Jan 2025 |
| The Smallest Seam That Works | Bridging old and new systems with restraint rather than reinvention. | Sep 2024 |
| Twenty-Year Statements | Designing a document so its meaning does not drift with the decades. | May 2024 |
| Answering the Phone | On reachability as a feature, and the value of a partner who picks up. | Feb 2024 |