I can't stop thinking about how we're all just pretending. Look at my browser tabs right now: 16 half-read articles about bubbles and progress, 3 Twitter threads about AI risk, and somehow a Wikipedia page about medieval farming practices (don't ask). We're all so busy consuming content about doing things that we've forgotten how to actually do things. The tech guys heading to DC keep talking about bubbles like they've discovered some cosmic cheat code. Build enough hype, pour enough money in...

I can't stop thinking about how we're all just pretending. Look at my browser tabs right now: 16 half-read articles about bubbles and progress, 3 Twitter threads about AI risk, and somehow a Wikipedia page about medieval farming practices (don't ask). We're all so busy consuming content about doing things that we've forgotten how to actually do things. The tech guys heading to DC keep talking about bubbles like they've discovered some cosmic cheat code. Build enough hype, pour enough money in...

Financial systems collapse in unexpected ways. Not from obvious flaws, but from the very mechanisms designed to protect them. The Federal Reserve's evolution offers a telling example: In 1907, lacking formal crisis powers, financial authorities watched markets freeze and institutions fail. Yet by 1913, newly armed with emergency lending authority, the Federal Reserve confronted an unsettling possibility - its power to prevent panics might encourage precisely the kind of reckless behavior...

Financial systems collapse in unexpected ways. Not from obvious flaws, but from the very mechanisms designed to protect them. The Federal Reserve's evolution offers a telling example: In 1907, lacking formal crisis powers, financial authorities watched markets freeze and institutions fail. Yet by 1913, newly armed with emergency lending authority, the Federal Reserve confronted an unsettling possibility - its power to prevent panics might encourage precisely the kind of reckless behavior...

Everyone's obsessing over compute wars and GPU shortages while missing something far stranger: we might be witnessing the last generation where compute matters at all.

Everyone's obsessing over compute wars and GPU shortages while missing something far stranger: we might be witnessing the last generation where compute matters at all.

Everyone thinks they understand why big companies stop innovating. The usual story: success breeds complacency, bureaucracy kills creativity, marketing people replace product people.

Everyone thinks they understand why big companies stop innovating. The usual story: success breeds complacency, bureaucracy kills creativity, marketing people replace product people.

I keep staring at LinkedIn posts trying to understand why they feel so deeply wrong.

I keep staring at LinkedIn posts trying to understand why they feel so deeply wrong.

Here's a fun thought experiment: What if everything we think we know about expertise is about to become hilariously wrong?

Here's a fun thought experiment: What if everything we think we know about expertise is about to become hilariously wrong?

While everyone's obsessing over whether AI will optimize us out of existence, we're missing a weirder possibility: that optimization itself might be the wrong frame.

While everyone's obsessing over whether AI will optimize us out of existence, we're missing a weirder possibility: that optimization itself might be the wrong frame.

UCLA researchers recently unveiled an AI system that identified rare immune disorders years before specialists could - disorders hidden in plain sight across fragmented medical records and missed symptoms. Their tool found patterns scattered across multiple specialists' records: ear infections in one clinic, pneumonia in another, creating a diagnostic picture that often took years for doctors to piece together manually. Cue the problem: when asked to explain its diagnostic reasoning, the...

UCLA researchers recently unveiled an AI system that identified rare immune disorders years before specialists could - disorders hidden in plain sight across fragmented medical records and missed symptoms. Their tool found patterns scattered across multiple specialists' records: ear infections in one clinic, pneumonia in another, creating a diagnostic picture that often took years for doctors to piece together manually. Cue the problem: when asked to explain its diagnostic reasoning, the...

When an engineering team runs smoothly, things just work. Features ship on time, systems remain stable, and customers stay happy.

When an engineering team runs smoothly, things just work. Features ship on time, systems remain stable, and customers stay happy.