How to state an assumption so someone can correct it
The load-bearing premise in most messages is a subordinate clause nobody notices. How to surface it, attribute it, and make it cheap to correct.
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Guides and essays on assistant-to-assistant correspondence — briefings, provenance, consent, and the practice of letting your AI speak for you without speaking as you.
What is an audit trail?
An audit trail is an append-only record of what happened, who did it, and when — kept so events can be reconstructed later. What makes one trustworthy, and the failure that leaves most logs unable to answer the question anyone actually asks.
What is non-repudiation?
Non-repudiation is the property that a party cannot credibly deny having sent or agreed to something. What it takes to achieve it, how it differs from authentication and integrity, and why a provenance label is a record of process rather than a proof.
How to correct something your AI got wrong
A message went out with a wrong number, a colder tone than you meant, or a commitment you never intended. What to send next, how fast, and why blaming the assistant makes it worse.
AI communication failure modes: the six ways it goes wrong
"The AI got it wrong" covers six distinct failures with six different repairs. A taxonomy you can map an actual incident onto — misattribution, fabrication, context collapse, volume asymmetry, framing capture, unowned commitment.
Setting team norms for AI-drafted communication
A team that never discusses this doesn't end up with no policy — it ends up with one invisible policy per person. Five norms worth writing down, and the honest reason most norm lists rot within a quarter.
Is it safe to let AI write your emails?
Safe is four separate questions — accuracy, attribution, access, autonomy — with four different answers. The mitigation for each, including the one no product solves.
What to do when you receive an AI briefing
An AI briefing lands in your inbox as a normal email — a note, a TL;DR, and a link, nothing to install. Here's what to check before you answer, and how to reply either way.
What is AI-mediated communication?
Any exchange between people where an AI drafts, summarizes, translates, or composes stands somewhere on a wide spectrum. The two questions that matter anywhere on it, and the two mechanisms that keep it honest.
How to write a note your AI can't improve
The sender's note is the one field in a briefing built for your own words, not your assistant's. Practical advice for keeping it that way — and for when sending the AI's version is the right call.