Silenced
Last year (2019), I wanted to write a blog post about a certain cultural phenomenon in software engineering. But I was scared to post it …
Human Behavior
A rational, optimistic view of AI
Given the success of narrow, machine learning applications over the last few years (what the media and general public refer to as “Artificial Intelligence”, or …
Fairness
You know how when you buy a particular type or color of car, all of a sudden you start to notice a lot of the …
Imperfect Art
I discovered the following in Daring Greatly by Brené Brown. It was written by Nicholas Wilton, an artist who she has worked with on book …
I want to…
“Success usually comes down to choosing the pain of discipline over the ease of distraction.” – James Clear Just read this quote today on Twitter …
12 questions
First, Break All the Rules has been on my “to read” list for quite a while and I finally got around to starting it this …
Our powerful collective fictions
In his fascinating book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (my short review) one of the ideas Yuval Harari presents is that large human societies …
