How do organizations actually move fast?
And can AI really solve the fundamental constraints of coordination?
essays
Bad Potatoes
Erosion of insight and the problem of objective specification
Thinking unevenly well
Why is it hard to transpose good thinking across domains and scales?
The Bullwhip Effect in knowledge work
Scale and the loss of shared reality
Human-maxxing: 10 ideas for innovation that improves the lived experience
What is worth preserving and maximizing about the human experience?
What's it all for?
Or, “human-maxxing,” Silicon Valley’s missing ideology
Stablecoins are lightbulbs
And we're about to electrify the world
What is slop?
It's time for a literary theory of slop.
Assumption Provenance in the age of AI
If you're just entering the workforce, you need to learn to question everything
Crypto is still in its automaton era
No, not "automation" - automaton.
The "10,000 Steps" Problem: Ironic KPIs
Strict measurement is relevant mostly when you're trying to go from "pretty good" to "excellent"
How LLMs killed AGI
The concept of "AGI" is as relevant to LLMs as "magic" is to smartphones.
AGI is a useless term
Why "Artificial General Intelligence" means nothing and limits productive discourse around the capabilities, risks, and implications of AI tech.