Books

The argument, at length

Three volumes: the spine of the theory, the primitive for builders, and the design philosophy for the Intelligence Age.

The spine

Introduction to Thoughtware

A theory of cognitive software: how judgment becomes architecture, and how intelligent systems are constructed.

Judgment has become a building material. This book develops a language for giving cognition a role, a boundary, and a way to develop, from cognitive units and agents through memory, evaluation, and the Thoughtware architect.

The primitive

The Cognitive Unit

A foundational theory of the smallest unit of intelligence that you can name, measure, price, trust and reuse, at scale.

Every codebase full of language-model calls already has the shape of a cognitive unit, but without a name, you cannot measure, share, or improve it. This book names the cognitive unit and works out what follows: open and closed decisions, purity, trust, cost, and composition into agents.

The design philosophy

Thoughtware: Designing in the Intelligence Age

A philosophy of product planning and design for an age in which software begins to think.

Consumers no longer only operate software, they direct intelligence. Twelve principles reframe product design around reduced cognitive load, software that knows you, intelligence as interface, and a new interaction model built on language and shared judgment.

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