# David J Crawford

> Writing on crafting product that keeps people safe and helps them thrive in the ever-changing world of generative and agentic AI. Three careers — software engineering, UX/design leadership, and now AI product — brought to bear on how product gets crafted at the intersection of desirability, feasibility and viability.

A curated map for AI agents. Most content is also available as raw Markdown: append `.md` to any writing URL, or fetch brain notes directly. Site: https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/

## Writing
- [The Right People, at the Right Time](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/writing/the-right-people-at-the-right-time.md): Why AI in security & access control only works when it's underpinned by deterministic foundations.
- [From Painting to Sculpting](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/writing/from-painting-to-sculpting.md): A more prototype-first, curation-led UX practice.
- [Lessons on AI Acceleration](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/writing/lessons-on-ai-acceleration.md): A personal reflection on new ways of working.
- [The Auditor and the Agent](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/writing/the-auditor-and-the-agent.md): SOC 2 in the agentic SDLC: the five trust criteria don't change when AI writes the code, but the discipline behind them has to get real.
- [AI Impact — Moats After the Scarcity Collapse](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/writing/ai-impact-moats-after-the-scarcity.md): What still keeps competitors at bay when generative AI slashes the cost of knowledge, code, and content?
- [AI Impact — Blue Ocean Strategy](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/writing/ai-impact-blue-ocean-strategy.md): Why the classic playbook for finding uncontested markets is being rewritten by generative AI, and where the next moats may lie.
- [A Systems-Level Introduction](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/writing/a-systems-level-introduction.md): Starting with first principles.
- [Future of Work](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/writing/future-of-work.md): Welcome to the future.

## Projects
- [This Portfolio](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/projects/this-portfolio/): The site as its own argument — a curated exhibition built to be read, not scrolled.

## The Brain (knowledge base)
- [Brain manifest](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/brain/manifest.json): a JSON index of every note; each note is served as raw Markdown at `/brain/<path>.md`.
- [Site brain](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/brain/site/index.md): the ideas, decisions and technical design behind the site (Open Knowledge Format).
- [Explorable graph](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/brain/): the same notes as an interactive node graph.

## Full text
- [llms-full.txt](https://davidjcrawford.github.io/Portfolio/llms-full.txt): the full text of every article in one file.