
What Now? Slow down the Worst & Build the New
If you want inspiration for this moment in time I have two recommendations: watch Babylon Berlin and read the Foundation Trilogy. They are roadmaps for living a moral life in a time of profound regression. I am approaching this moment with the clarity that comes from recognizing that one has failed. Over a decade ago I started calling for dramatic changes to how we organize society. I gave talks, wrote blog posts and even published a book. But I didn't make a dent. Instead, the existing socie...

What Now? Slow down the Worst & Build the New
If you want inspiration for this moment in time I have two recommendations: watch Babylon Berlin and read the Foundation Trilogy. They are roadmaps for living a moral life in a time of profound regression. I am approaching this moment with the clarity that comes from recognizing that one has failed. Over a decade ago I started calling for dramatic changes to how we organize society. I gave talks, wrote blog posts and even published a book. But I didn't make a dent. Instead, the existing socie...


European Federation Manifesto
A Provocation

Philosophy Mondays: From Is to Ought - Toward a Universal Moral Core (Cont’d)
Part II: Resource Mobilization

Philosophy Mondays: From Is to Ought - Toward a Universal Moral Core (Cont’d)
Part II: Resource Mobilization

More Lazy Employment Thinking: Jevons Paradox Edition
Invocations of the Lump of Labor Fallacy have recently been superseded by appeals to Jevons paradox in claiming that we shouldn’t worry about what AI progress will do to workers. As with the case of calling something a fallacy, a paradox also suggests that those who understand it are smarter and more sophisticated than those who don’t. Case in point is Einstein’s famous Twin paradox, which people love to throw around in discussions of space travel but is quite difficult to actually understand...

More Lazy Employment Thinking: Jevons Paradox Edition
Invocations of the Lump of Labor Fallacy have recently been superseded by appeals to Jevons paradox in claiming that we shouldn’t worry about what AI progress will do to workers. As with the case of calling something a fallacy, a paradox also suggests that those who understand it are smarter and more sophisticated than those who don’t. Case in point is Einstein’s famous Twin paradox, which people love to throw around in discussions of space travel but is quite difficult to actually understand...

Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science

Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science