Currently on My Mind
DoorDashing for Our AI Overlords
A few weeks back, Jacob Coxon, the Anthropic researcher who resigned after warning about where increasingly capable AI might take us, was getting plenty of press love.
Dive infleeting thoughts
My Summer of Silicon
Close friends and family who have had the misfortune of asking what I’m reading know that I organize my leisure reading into quadrimesters.
My Assistant Changed Species
If I broke my career into chapters, there would probably be three.
Do Chinese Startups Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do startups dream? If they do, it probably looks something like this.
Silicon Valley Discovers Philosophy
Okay, it all makes sense now.
Sporks, Squirrels, and Secret Sauce
I’m slightly neurotic about digital clutter.
The Camera Wasn’t On. I Still Felt Watched.
I was back in Boston recently and met an early-stage founder at Durty Nelly’s, my all-time favorite bar.
Europe’s Data Trauma
I just finished Anu Bradford’s Digital Empires, which lays out three very different ways of governing technology.
I Found My Phone, Thanks to the Surveillance State
My first day in Shanghai did not go particularly well.
More People Should Know Lynn Conway
For the last few months, I’ve been going down a rabbit hole on the early days of semiconductors.
China’s AI Advantage Might Be Everyone Else
I’m in the homestretch of my dissertation on the U.S.-China AI race, so this particular rabbit hole runs pretty deep.
Hello World. Welcome to My Social Network of One.
Heya there, and welcome to the first post on a website that, at the moment, contains almost nothing.