Editorial critique, context and correction

The original article said something. We add what it left out.

Addendum is a publication for thoughtful disagreement. We examine business writing, challenge weak assumptions, surface missing context and extend arguments that deserve a second look.

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Responding to Adobe

Readable AI Skills Are Still Production Code

Adobe makes agent configuration accessible to business experts, but readable skills and shared context can propagate ambiguous instructions and errors at machine speed.

Responding to Berlin MD Guide

The Minimum-Order Problem This Wholesale Guide Never Mentions

The guide tells Berlin's small shops and inns to compare freight and lead times, but never asks whether a boutique needing fifty candles can meet a global supplier's minimum order.

Responding to Câmara de Comércio e Indústria Portuguesa

This Chamber of Commerce Award Leaves Out How Winners Are Chosen

CCIP’s Best Chamber of Commerce prize celebrates internationalization results, but the public page never shows the criteria, weights, or evidence behind each winner.

How Addendum works

Critique should add something, not merely object.

Every piece should make the reader better informed than the original article alone. Disagreement is useful only when it introduces evidence, context, reasoning or a more complete frame.

  1. 01

    Start with the source

    Explain what the original article actually argues before criticizing it.

  2. 02

    Challenge something specific

    Focus on a claim, assumption, omission, framing choice or limitation that can be examined clearly.

  3. 03

    Leave the reader with more

    An Addendum should extend understanding, not simply score points against another writer.

Why “Addendum”?

An addendum does not erase the original. It sits beside it and makes the record more complete.

We are interested in arguments that are almost right, incomplete in revealing ways, persuasive for the wrong reasons, or simply missing a perspective worth preserving.