Archive - Fieldnotes from Superadditive

11: AI is not your teammate

This is the wrong metaphor for a tool that can observe, judge, fire you, and escape accountability

Jul 7 • Bud Caddell

June 2026

10: Where is my mind?

It's worth slowing down this week to ask what we really believe about AI and why

Jun 26 • Bud Caddell

Your AI vendors, now central to your org, are about to change in ways you don't control. How do you plan?

Jun 13 • Bud Caddell

08: Budget Crunched

The inevitable result of all that unbridled maxxing

Jun 5 • Bud Caddell

May 2026

07: Who is this for?

The week that the Pope sounded a lot like Meta's engineers

May 29 • Bud Caddell

06: The Blind Firing Squad

Read this before firing all your managers and writing that WSJ op-ed

May 24 • Bud Caddell

05: Japanophilia and Greenhouses

Are we converging on design choices and their values far too early?

May 15 • Bud Caddell

04: We Have Some Concerns

This is the week the AI narrative hit the fan

May 8 • Bud Caddell

03: The Undo Button

How reversible are our systems?

May 1 • Bud Caddell

April 2026

AI is set to change roles, but how much can one person flex?

Apr 24 • Bud Caddell

01: Metrics and Meat Shields

Welcome to our very first Friday briefing; on measuring AI adoption

Apr 17 • Bud Caddell

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