Writings
Exploring artificial intelligence, institutional design, and how emerging technologies reshape how we think and work.
A Different Kind of Character Counter
Nearly all our technology is built to compensate for human slowness. And that's smart. We will never be as fast as computers and machines. It's a great gift they provide us. But somewhere in celebrating that gift, we started treating it as the highest of all values, not just in our tools but in ourselves. Speed isn't our strength.
Perhaps we aren’t blaming autocorrect enough
I turned autocorrect off to sharpen my writing. It became too many pushups. What I actually wanted was a tool that acted with me instead of for me -- and that turns out to be a design problem, not a personal one.
Niceness as a Function
A 5-year-old's offhand comment about robots turned out to be one of the most precise observations about AI I've encountered.
AI in the Wild
I also publish original reporting and field research through AI in the Wild, an independent publication I launched covering artificial intelligence in heavily regulated and mission-critical industries.
If you want to understand where AI is actually headed, watch how it unfolds in its most challenging arenas.