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Tech is cool; business is boring.
AI isn’t a solution looking for a problem—it’s a market strategy made by people who aren’t even thinking about problems.
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Watch me be in three meetings at once
You can be forgiven if you have the impression that I hate AI. I do have profound concerns with the ways the technology is being…
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Garbage in garbage out
Google put a box of AI-generated text at the top of their search results. If you don’t know what that means, I’m talking about the…
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“Number go up” isn’t everything
I have no idea how many people read my articles. I love it. This hasn’t always been true. When I worked at a culty tech company,…
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The life changing magic of shutting up
Here’s a secret the people who run social media networks don’t want you to know—the one thing you can do to mess up their entire…
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Startup founders: hire me to be your CEO
An open letter. You should make me the CEO of your company. I promise to upset your investors in ways that are really, really, funny.…
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In 2020 what we need is utopia, but even Star Trek is jaded
I caught up on Star Trek: Picard. My main thought: What is the point of western civilization if even Star Trek can’t be hopeful? Star…
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Facebook moderators miss key directives because the news feed is terrible
Many current social problems—not all, but many—can be traced back to our collective decision to prioritize #engagement in the systems we use to communicate with…
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There are tiny hippos living in your house (and other thoughts)
All these years later I still think about house hippos once a month or so. Confused? So was I, as a kid, seeing this PSA…
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Does the decline of local journalism explain declining trust in government?
Calling the government useless only works if you take for granted all the many ways public employees make modern life possible. Officials doing their jobs…