ethics
Chatting With The Oracle #3: The Ring Will Be Built
The ring has always been built. It has always been destroyed. What saved us was time. The question is whether we still have any, and whether we would know if we didn't.
ethics
artificial intelligence
Chatting With The Oracle #1: There Is No Hallucination. There Is Only the Oracle.
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.
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
How California’s Child-Safety Law Crowned the OS as King — and Why That Matters to Your Company
The unintended consequences of rewriting the balance of power between apps and the few platforms still standing — the operating systems
culture
J. Robert’s Last A-Bomb
On the silence that followed the first explosion and never really ended
tech
The Catastrophe of the Missing Nail
From fool-proof to fast-fix — and the quiet decay of engineering conscience
tech
AI Is the Child of Probability, Humans Are Prisoners of Causality
Einstein was wrong. Bohr was right. The universe runs on probability, not cause and effect. We've spent centuries pretending otherwise. Then we accidentally built something that doesn't pretend.
culture
Stop Running. Start Swinging (Master Yoda Is Watching)
From vampires to Jedi, from Hogwarts to Westeros — why the good guys need to stop bickering and start winning.
culture
The Lychee Road: It Is So Not About Lychee
An empire mobilizes everything for a single lychee. The fruit gets delivered. The consort doesn't eat it. This isn't about the fruit. It's about us.
tech
The End of Silicon Valley (As We Knew It)
Startups are dissolving, Big Tech is absorbing, and engineers are left wondering whether they should stay in the game.
culture
Two Ways to Survive a War
Schindler's List used restraint. Life is Beautiful used charm as a trapdoor. Two films, two impossible situations, two completely different survival strategies. What they reveal about storytelling, moral courage, and the limits of hope.
culture
The Heart and the Deed: East and West in Moral Philosophy and Storytelling
Hidden Blade vs. Bridge of Spies: Two spy movies. Two visions of justice. No one walks away whole.