A service-design and financial-systems reading of a forced residential relocation programme, where poor communication, compensation design, and lease economics point to a larger business-systems question.
DeepSeek bans exposed a weak pattern in enterprise AI governance: selective scrutiny, geopolitical reflex, and inconsistent treatment of model risk.
The same memory discipline that works for codebases and organizations leads to a harder question: what should a life preserve?
A builder note explaining why this site uses deterministic title-seeded generated images for every post, and what that says about repeatable creative systems.
Consumer AI will open new product categories by making fragmented, personal needs cheap enough to interpret, route, and serve before expert help is required.
A workshop-facing piece on the difference between onboarding people to tools and orienting AI around the work it must understand.