Essays

Long-form thinking on leadership, engineering, data, philosophy, and sundry other topics.

  • data-ai
  • history

Everybody wants to rule the world

The mathematics of thinking machines was finished decades before anyone could afford to run it. A trace from Galvani's twitching frog to the graphics card — and the question the whole enterprise set aside in order to begin.

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  • leadership
  • companies
  • engineering

The one thing worth hiring for

The one quality worth hiring for in any company is not raw skepticism but a disciplined approach — an epistemology that has made its peace with uncertainty.

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  • data-ai
  • leadership

Owning your AI

Who decides what your AI says no to? Ablation is the technical answer to an increasingly legal question about enterprise AI governance.

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