tech
180 Days: Firewall The Layoff
The valley is about to see more layoffs. Not because people are not working hard enough. Because the math changed.
E. J.
culture
A House of Dynamite: Relax. This Is Not How It Works.
The threat we should fear isn't the one we can track. It's the complexity we've built that has outpaced our ability to model it, and the quiet assumption that someone, somewhere, still has their hand on the switch.
artificial intelligence
Chatting With The Oracle #2: The AI That Doesn’t Know What Time It Is
AI agents are being deployed to make real-time decisions, but they have no reliable sense of when they are. That's not a minor bug. It's a fundamental problem for anything we ask them to do autonomously.
artificial intelligence
Hail Mary: Traveling in the Darkness Lit Up by Stars
And why maybe we’ll be safe even if AI becomes more intelligent
tech
Tesla’s Most Expensive Illusion
Everyone has an explanation for what’s happening to Tesla. Most of them are incomplete.
artificial intelligence
The Two and a Half People Who Understood
True understanding between people is rarer than we admit. Most connections are approximations. This is about what it actually takes to be seen, and why that's harder than it sounds, for humans and machines alike.
philosophy
Why Bostrom’s Simulation Argument Isn’t as Strong as It Sounds
So… Are We Really Living in a Simulation?
culture
Hamnet: On Inner Alignment and the Weight of Attention
On Connection, Distance, and Being Seen
tech
A Phone Call at the Edge of the Compute Bubble
A reflection on enterprise AI adoption, risk ownership, and decision paralysis under accelerating technological change
tech
When a Song Confuses AI: What It Reveals About the Mystery of Human Creativity
When statistical models meet subtle human creativity
tech
Amazon’s Layoffs: Sign of Strategic Rewiring
Amazon has $93 billion in cash and generates $32 billion in free cash flow. This isn't about saving $2 billion. It's about direction.
tech
Highway FSD: Safe Enough to Relax, Not Enough to Look Away
Why the hardest part of self-driving isn’t the code — it’s the second before we take the wheel.