AI Governance, From First Principles

Table of Contents 1. Where I started 2. Why, what, and how 3. From two questions to a map 4. Reading the frameworks 4a. The EU AI Act 4b. NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework 4c. The OECD AI Principles 4d. The UK’s pro-innovation approach 4e. Frontier (scaling-law) governance 5. What the map shows 6. Where it’s going References, by framework 1. Where I started When I first tried to read about AI governance, I found myself in an alphabet soup. There’s a pile of names to learn: the EU AI Act, NIST, Bletchley, the OECD Principles, Korea’s Basic Act, “the omnibus,” Singapore’s framework, the UK’s different one, a treaty and the abbreviations stack up faster than the understanding does. If you’ve tried, you’ve probably hit the same wall. ...

June 17, 2026 · 14 min · 2908 words · Devendra Vyas

The Last Mile Is the Whole Job

Every parcel you’ve ever received traveled most of its distance cheaply. A container ship crosses an ocean for cents per kilogram. A truck runs a highway lane at near-perfect utilization. Then the parcel reaches a depot twenty minutes from your door, and the economics fall off a cliff. Figure 0: The Last Mile Delivery Problem The numbers say it plainly. Last-mile delivery now absorbs roughly 53% of total shipping cost — up from 41% in 2018, and now the single largest line item in the fulfillment chain, having quietly overtaken warehousing and middle-mile freight combined [1][2]. ...

June 12, 2026 · 12 min · 2364 words · Devendra Vyas