I’ve just published the July issue of the Personal Strategy Compass newsletter, and it centers on a physical metaphor that hit me during my recent Q3 Personal Quarterly Offsite (PQO).
I caught myself spending far too much analytical energy on a minor home
In the latest episode of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, Tom Mighell and I turned the spotlight inward to talk about the course I just finished teaching at the University of Michigan Law School called Legal Technology Literacy and Leadership. This course is considered a practical simulation class. It was built this past semester around
With the 2026 World Cup underway, it is easy to get caught up in the drama of the opening whistle. But any coach will tell you that games are rarely won in the first few minutes. They are won or lost in the
I’ve been tracking a subtle but dangerous shift in the legal tech landscape. For the last few years, the entire industry has been obsessed with “hallucinations”—obvious, glaring errors like fake case citations. But as Tom Mighell and I discussed on episode 418 of The Kennedy-Mighell Report, focusing
The Door in the Hallway: Agentic AI and the Illusion of Control
We used to talk a lot about the concept of a customized, bounded news feed designed to give professionals exactly what they need to know, and nothing they don’t. It was usually called the “Daily Me.”
Lately, I’ve been trying to build a
The May issue of Personal Strategy Compass newsletter is live, picking up in the silence left behind after April’s “acoustic stage” was cleared of its noise and inherited obligations.
If April was about the courage to strip the stage down to its essential signal, May is about the craft required to sustain it.
The
The prevailing narrative I hear in the legal world is that Claude is the “most human” of the LLMs and, especially, a nuanced, sophisticated writer. When I report that the system has begun to fail my specific research protocols, the common response is a suggestion that I am simply using the wrong version and a
The April issue of Personal Strategy Compass is out, and this one took longer to find its frame than most.
The image that finally unlocked it was Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love tour. Not the Born in the USA stadium spectacle that preceded it. The moment after, when he stripped the stage down to almost
When I started posting about AI this year, I did not realize that I was beginning my own version of David Bowie’s Low album.
I use that comparison carefully. Low matters here not as a code book or a track-by-track template, but as an allusion to emergence, fracture, atmosphere, and a break in method that
There are moments in a long AI session when the exchange stops feeling linear.
You are no longer simply asking a question and receiving an answer. You are no longer even refining a prompt in the ordinary sense. Something else begins to happen. Certain phrases return with altered weight. Certain errors recur, but not identically.
