One of the best talks I saw at Enigma 2017 was this one by Ian Haken (@ianhaken)…
Archives for March 2017
No, the IRA Isn’t Just Like ISIS
On March 22nd, 2017 a man drove his car into pedestrians on the Westminster Bridge…
The Rise of the Individual Influencer
I think we’re entering a new era of human creativity and productivity—one…
Motherhood is Invisible Slavery
Mar 23, 2017 I find it interesting to think about what should be strange to us,…
Game Design is About to Become a Critical Career
Game Design—defined not just as the visual elements in a game, but the underlying…
Failure and How to Help People Avoid It
One fundamental difference between the left and right is their approach to handling…
Green Zone, Red Zone
Mar 19, 2017 This post will be stream-of-consciousness style. I’m worried…
It’s Not About Trump Winning
The left and center of this country used to think that the biggest calamity to…
What Evolution Can Teach Us About Climate Change
Lots of regular, educated people are incensed about the fact that Republicans…
Rural America Conflated Two Separate Issues
I was talking to my friend Mark the other day about the election and stumbled…
The Bifurcation of America: The Forced Class Separation into Alphas and Betas
Mar 11, 2017 There is something monumental happening with social class in the…
A Response to Benedict Evans on the Limitations of Voice Interfaces
Benedict Evans wrote a great piece about voice interfaces where he argues his…
First and Second Order Chaos
I was just reading Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari, and he mentioned something interesting…
We’ve Reached Peak Prevention
As we all know, there are two main components to risk: 1) the chance that something…
Computer Voice Interfaces Are a Combination of Voice Recognition and NLP
To a casual observer, it might appear that “voice interfaces” to computers—like…
Greatness vs. Imperfection: How Should We Rate Our Leaders?
Trump’s presidency has forced me to re-evaluate what it means to be a good…
The Mea Culpa Meta Game
I love the psychology that goes into post-outage write-ups. Amazon just had a…
Governments, Markets, and Media
I was thinking the other day about an analogy between government services vs.…
