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Systems Thinking and the Denial of Death
Failures are still coming even once you learn how to understand them
Oct 31, 2024 • 
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Your Bureaucracy is Not Ready for the LLM Swarm
(idea credit to some back-and-forths with Robinson Eaton )
Apr 16 • 
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Some of You May Die
But it's a price someone is willing to take a bet on
Feb 3, 2021 • 
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Playing on the Legible Frontier
The closest thing I have to finding where the fun is
Apr 25 • 
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Short-form Content Makes You Ever More Alone
Your experience is a mix of content size and context size.
Jun 6 • 
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AI is Single-Player for now. That's Bad. And it Won't Last
The Arc of AI Collaboration is long but it bends towards functional workflows
Jun 23 • 
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AI is Single-Player for now. That's Bad. And it Won't Last
A Lens on What Google is (and is not) Good At
There’s a long essay I wrote internally at google that cites things I can’t share publicly.
Sep 14, 2023 • 
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Train the Iterated Game
Wisdom comes from repeat experience. If we want to train AIs to have wisdom, we need to train them on repeat experience.
Jan 31 • 
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Abundance is not anti-democratic, it’s anti veto
The discourse surrounding Klein and Thompson’s "Abundance" raises a critical concern: the potential for increased development to override local voices.
Mar 25 • 
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Abundance is not anti-democratic, it’s anti veto
The Bitter Lesson of AI Product Design
stop being clever and just ask
May 7 • 
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The Bitter Lesson of AI Product Design
Lonely San Francisco
A city who's wealth is built on network effects refuses to understand them.
Nov 19, 2024 • 
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A Dog-Eared Page
A journal entry, in metaphor, from a low point.
Jun 7, 2022 • 
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