Field Notes
Personal reporting, interviews, investigations, conference observations, reader questions, and newsroom-style analysis drawn from direct conversations and on-the-ground work.
Enterprise AI Summit: What the Industry Announcements Really Mean
Enterprise AI Summit coverage that separates real product progress from polished claims, funding theater, policy risk, a...
Why This Blog Exists: AI News Needs Less Excitement and More Evidence
This opening Field Notes piece explains why The Whitfield Brief was created: to give U.S. readers clearer AI news analys...
The Press Release on One Screen, the Product on Another
A Field Notes craft essay on reading AI announcements with the press release on one screen and the live product on anoth...
What Founders Say About AI Adoption When the Cameras Are Off
A Field Notes essay on the gap between on-stage AI adoption talk and off-stage operational language. It describes recurr...
Read the Announcement. Then Read the Incentives.
This closing Field Notes essay states the method behind The Whitfield Brief: read the announcement, then read the incent...