Five Moves Ahead
A three-minute bullet game became a clean note about strategic sacrifice: the move only makes sense when you can see what it buys later.
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Fieldwork
Evidence-bearing lessons from applying AI to business operations, creative production, frontier research, and physical projects.
Stories in Fieldwork
13 stories, linked by subject rather than search-engine variants.
Career Thoughts: the Grind
A short argument against turning relentless work into a personality, and against measuring human worth by output.
Read story →Before the Method Had a Name
The aging whitepaper was an early attempt to make AI hold a wandering line of thought together. It is more useful as evidence of the process than as current doctrine.
Read story →Career Thoughts: Why Energy and Space Matter
The far-beyond-30,000-foot version of why energy and space keep showing up in Kendrick's work.
Read story →Warheads to Reactor Fuel: What Changed
Weapons uranium has powered civilian reactors at scale. The newer HALEU story is real too. The public record still does not connect those facts into a dedicated U.S. warhead-to-SMR program.
Read story →Career Thoughts: Arts and Business
Nashville sharpened a question Kendrick had been carrying: why do people who make things feel compelled to split the artist from the professional?
Read story →midstream: a Former-Affiliation Archive
A short historical post from Kendrick's time leading midstream, now preserved with the public context that matters and the private material left private.
Read story →A Creative Pipeline for AI Music and Music Video Work
KendrickCreates is organizing AI music and video tools into a reviewable pipeline with human approval at consequential creative decisions.
Read story →Munich priced both ends of the AI music model
Six songs were enough to frame both ends of the pipe: a license to train on the repertoire and another to commercially exploit model output.
Read story →Why a Software Baby Led to a Neuromorphic Lab Proposal
Abe's network could stay active while losing the difference between actions. That failure led Kirk+Co from software development to a carefully bounded cross-substrate question.
Read story →What Agentic Planning Can—and Cannot—Do for a Physical Project
A physical project forces planning to meet site conditions, regulation, engineering, sequence, and taste. Confident language does not move a shoreline.
Read story →The Breadth of Agentic Execution Is Real. So Are Its Limits.
Agents can carry work across research, drafting, coding, testing, and coordination. Range becomes leverage only when permissions, evidence, and escalation are explicit.
Read story →What Backpropagation Leaves Open About How Intelligence Learns
A Context Edition on the gap between global error-driven training and local biological learning—and why the open question matters without turning it into a verdict.
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