Personal blogs

The city’s AI drones discover a superstorm approaching beyond the horizon. The city tries to warn its inhabitants but lacks the voice to do so. The storm sweeps through the city, destroying everything in its …

And what a swell party it was! A celebrity guestlist like no other; a Rihanna concert; a David Blaine magic show; hundreds of singers and dancers, Bollywood A-listers mucking about on stage and one Town …

Yesterday was the one-year anniversary of the day I tested positive for covid for the first time. All things considered I thought I had done well to avoid it for three years though it obviously …

Have you ever seen a church mouse? We never have. It is one of the poorest of the poor and is therefore only a shadow of its former self, still present in the saying about …

Like an aging AAA slugger called up to the majors, like a prep-school outsider starting college, like a choreographer with bad knees getting access to the biggest stage, I find myself leading the product management …

I try to make myself and my immediate surroundings as self-sufficient as possible. There’s something innate in me that makes me want to do everything myself, to not depend on anyone, and even more so …

This kind of virtuous rising tide rent, which benefits everyone, doesn’t last. Once the growth of the new market slows, the now-powerful innovators can no longer rely on new user adoption and collective innovation from …

Perhaps the most important insight NASA has gleaned from studying team dynamics—in space and on Earth—is the preciousness of one trait in particular: a sense of humour. Studies of crews overwintering at the South Pole …

There is, at least for now, a very fast AI image generator you can play with. It’s rather addictive! Upfront warning: I’m not going to use it for art, even spot illos on my free …

I've been feeling kind of ... broken lately. Broken in the way that a car breaks down. Like I have a flat tire or two, the alignment is screwed up, the A/C doesn't work any …