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Notes on roles,
and organisational health.

Short essays and field notes on ARA in practice — authority that actually devolves, responsibilities that hold at review time, and using structured role specs with AI.

We took a real Chief of Staff spec and found the bug

Pull any Chief of Staff job description off a job board, sort it into Authority, Responsibility, and Ability, and the same fault shows up every time — the authority is never written down. Here's the exercise, on a real one.

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On the drafting table
02Why "communicate more" never works — and what to write down instead
03Authority is priced in risk, not knowledge
04Every recurring meeting is a missing spec
05Prompting an AI with MAY / MUST / CAN