The journal

What this journal is.

Working notes from the writing of Judgment Capital, and from the rooms where its questions are being asked.

The book names an asset no institution counts: the accumulated capacity of its people to judge — formed slowly, spent quickly, and drawn down fastest in the years when the machinery is most impressive. The argument is long-form and lives in the book. The questions it raises arrive weekly, and they are shorter.

This journal carries those shorter pieces: notes from the writing, questions boards are actually asking as AI settles into their organisations, and versions of pieces the authors publish elsewhere, kept here in the book’s own register.

Signed pieces carry their author’s name. Unsigned notes are the house’s — held to the same standard: a claim you can check, a question you can take into a meeting, or nothing.

The list

Entries arrive weekly. Leave an address and they come to you, along with the publication date when there is one.