Essays and perspectives on AI, technological change, and what it means for all of us.
Why I started weekly coffee meetups. The weight of what I was seeing. The gap between what I knew was happening and what the people I care about understood. What are you doing to prepare?
Read moreThe gap between what we say and what we mean has never mattered much — until now. Here's why aligning AI with human intent is one of the hardest problems we've ever faced, and why it has to be solved before it's too late.
Read moreThe singularity isn't science fiction — it's a mathematical threshold. Here's what it actually means, why the sequence of events leading up to it matters so much, and why understanding it changes your sense of urgency.
Read moreAI is already displacing knowledge workers — and robotics is coming for physical work next. Here's what's actually happening, and a framework for thinking about your own situation.
Read moreThe bushfires taught me something about what community actually does in a crisis. The AI disruption ahead requires the same lesson — learned before the fire arrives, not during it.
Read moreWhen the future feels uncertain, a 1940s psychology diagram turns out to be surprisingly useful — not as a prediction, but as a planning map.
Read moreThis is the post I find hardest to write — not because the scenarios are implausible, but because naming them out loud still feels uncomfortable. Let's do it anyway.
Read moreWe spend a lot of time talking about what could go wrong. Not enough time on what we're actually hoping for. That gap matters — because you can't navigate toward something you can't picture.
Read moreNine posts in, and now the question that matters most. Not what should someone do in the abstract — what can you actually do, today, with the life you have?
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