Sanity Check — field notes from the edge of agentic adoption.

“The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.”
— Peter Diamandis (Peter’s Law #22)

Field notes from the edge of agentic adoption. Bets in flight, receipts attached.

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Volume II so far[2]

2 essays since the relaunch

Featured · latest issue

The protocols nobody calls the protocols

Three independent specs landed in the last 12 months. They share a shape — and the shape is what's worth betting on, not the specs.

Vol. II · also new

I stopped writing about data. Here's what brought me back.

I published my last Sanity Check in October 2023. Then I went quiet.

About

Ben Wilson, editor.

10+ years in systems automation, reporting, and analytics. Agentic workflows became the most powerful tool in my toolbelt 18 months ago. Now seeing how far I can push it.

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Volume I — back catalog[15]

2021 — 2023

The first volume built the pattern language for the modern data stack. A representative selection — the full archive holds 15.

2021

Data's Secret Sauce

Explores the tension between protecting proprietary business insights and sharing analytical methodologies. Us…

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