
I pay my bills by being the logic in the room
The gap between "I built a bot" and "I replaced a human" is enormous, and most of the people pretending otherwise haven't run the thing they claim to have automated.

I pay my bills by being the logic in the room
The gap between "I built a bot" and "I replaced a human" is enormous, and most of the people pretending otherwise haven't run the thing they claim to have automated.

After Productivity
I have been observing how the technology field talks to itself for the last decade. The conversation has closed into a loop, and the people inside the loop are increasingly unable to perceive that the loop is closed. The loop has a specific shape. People building productivity tools for the people building productivity tools. Tool marketplaces for the builders of tool marketplaces. Optimization layers optimizing the layers that optimize them.

After Productivity
I have been observing how the technology field talks to itself for the last decade. The conversation has closed into a loop, and the people inside the loop are increasingly unable to perceive that the loop is closed. The loop has a specific shape. People building productivity tools for the people building productivity tools. Tool marketplaces for the builders of tool marketplaces. Optimization layers optimizing the layers that optimize them.


Turning Noise into Signal
Wisdom is the real market

What We Lose When We Stop Being Curious
How simplified decision-making can undermine genuine human connection (an essay rife w/ the Oxford Comma)

What We Lose When We Stop Being Curious
How simplified decision-making can undermine genuine human connection (an essay rife w/ the Oxford Comma)

Who and what is right, in a central ID system?
An attempt to understand the central tension surrounding decentralized identity: the promise of sovereignty versus the practicalities of implementation and the risks of exclusion or misuse.

Who and what is right, in a central ID system?
An attempt to understand the central tension surrounding decentralized identity: the promise of sovereignty versus the practicalities of implementation and the risks of exclusion or misuse.