The Pope recently said that "deep inner suffering inevitably arises when the human person is reduced to performance, consumption, or a statistical datum. Can AI help? I have spent the last couple weeks coaxing a system out of Claude that would help me in this current job search. Custom-
Can I use AI to quantify my own job market value in a way that is more useful than LinkedIn Premium? Way back in 1789, Jeremy Bentham (the Panopticon guy) introduced the concept of felicific calculus, an algorithm that could be used "for calculating the degree or amount of
Taking a closer look at the hidden costs of velocity. In my very first post I acknowledged one of the more unfortunate impacts of my Eye•Full project: it was impacting my sleep. As the project advanced, I was spending more and more time trying to work through strategies or
What values are we encoding when we remove people from the system? In the early 1980s, Steve Jobs famously told Scientific American "What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we've ever come up with, and it's the
I want to switch gears and talk more explicitly about costs, the slippery details around how much a token is worth, and what we might look forward to as major providers like OpenAI and Anthropic get ready for their IPOs that are expected this year. To do that, I want
Last week, four astronauts splashed down in the Pacific after traveling farther from Earth than any humans have in more than fifty years. The spacecraft Integrity was built with the combined expertise of thousands of engineers, scientists, and mission crew. This product of a sustained international collaboration carried them around
It's about human goals and what the tools help you see. I’ve been thinking a lot about tools and the impact the tools we choose have on what we create with them. It’s not a new idea. Edward Tufte made this point back in 2003 when
I’ve been going a little bit crazy trying to reconcile the two dominant ways of thinking about AI. I simply cannot avoid hearing about how the technology promises more than it delivers, is a vehicle companies can use to substitute agents for actual employees, risks deskilling professionals, appropriates other
