Availability is not significance
What enters the field can shape a choice before it has earned the right to govern it.
Forthcoming · Cognitive Publishing
The Intent Gap
How What We Do Loses Contact with Why It Matters
A short, rigorous work on human authorship, technological capability, and the reason that should still govern what follows.
The Intent Gap opens when our capacity to formulate and act outruns our authorship of the reason meant to govern what follows.
Capability is not purpose
A system can extend what we can formulate or do without supplying the reason for doing it.
Success is not answerability
A course can work perfectly while losing contact with the reason that made it worth pursuing.
THE BOOK
A compact argument about what must still remain ours.
We are becoming extraordinarily capable of producing, deciding, and acting. Capability does not settle what should matter.
The Intent Gap follows the relation from attention and possibility through goals, media, action, consequence, and continuing human authorship.
SEVEN MOVEMENTS
From motion to authorship.
- 01When Doing Becomes Easier Than Knowing Why
- 02What Enters the Field
- 03The Image That Does Not Yet Exist
- 04When the Goal Begins to Govern
- 05When Meaning Meets the Medium
- 06What Comes Back
- 07What Must Still Be Ours
JON DEA
Writing at the boundary between inner direction and external capability.
Jon Dea writes about intent, authorship, media ecology, technology, and the changing conditions under which people remain answerable to what matters. The work is deliberately compact: complete arguments without unnecessary occupation of the reader's time.