12 June 2026
4.3% and other beautiful lies
A monthly fairy tale, brought to you by people that already know better
Notes
Field Notes, written as Zelda Cavanaugh, also Michelle Cavanaugh. The canvas only shows the final output. These essays are the systems underneath.
10 June 2026
Bird Watching the same five thoughts
Common species include the Slop-Caller, the Great Hedger, and the Lesser Dunking Tit
9 June 2026
One True Sentence
How to collaborate with AI and still sound like yourself
9 June 2026
The Gospel of the AI Evangelists
They're selling a definition of artificial intelligence that doesn't exist and making a very good living doing it.
8 June 2026
The numbers don't lie, but the headlines do
Stocks are cratering, the Fed is eyeing rate hikes, the jobs report is a statistical magic trick, and tech is quietly experiencing its own dot-com reckoning
5 June 2026
Agents Aren’t Going to Take Your Job, Either
Another week, another round of apocalyptic headlines with a touch of honesty
2 June 2026
Everyone's job is safe except your job
An incomplete autopsy
1 June 2026
Good at Something
On self-efficacy, algorithmic anxiety, and why the backlash was always going to happen
31 May 2026
So, You’ve Decided to Do Product Operations
A brief field guide to the discipline nobody understands, including many of the people being paid to practice it.
30 May 2026
How the Internet Is Quietly Breaking People’s Minds
On information overload, cognitive collapse, and the strange new psychosis playing out in your comment section every day.
28 May 2026
The Hollow Feed
On illiteracy, the industrialization of meaning, and what we surrender when stories no longer ask anything of us
28 May 2026
The Vocabulary Police Don't Read Enough Books
How the People Calling Out "AI Words" Are Exposing Their Own Literary Blind Spots
20 May 2026
Keep Your Word, Kid.
Why Accountability and Integrity Matter
11 May 2026
Operationalizing Data Plumbing for the Era of Autonomous Reason
A love story
28 April 2026
The Half-Life of Digital Thought
AI model decay and other fun topics for dinner
28 April 2026
Dancing Lessons for the Machines
A product manager's guide to the agentic commerce
9 March 2026
The Cultural Geiger Counter
Why companies held together by duct tape are absolutely terrified of your artificial intelligence
3 March 2026
Context Debt
The algorithm is fine, but your company’s duct-taped workflows are a problem
26 February 2026
Breakfast of Consultants
Because the supercomputer still doesn't know what Gary does all day
14 January 2026
Product Management is Brand Management, Now.
There’s a shift happening that a lot of teams can feel but still can’t name without reaching for a buzzword.