ESSAYS/NEWS
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Spellcheck Never Required a Confession
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LinkedIn added an “AI slop” button a month or so ago. If you click the three dots on any post, there is now an option…
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The Taiwan Story Everyone’s Suddenly Covering, and the Seventy Years Nobody Explained First
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Xi Jinping lands in Washington today for his first visit to the White House in eleven years, and by every account I’ve read from people…
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How to Lose Friends and Infuriate People
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A practical guide, field-tested over roughly a decade, with results you can expect to replicate at your very next family dinner. Step One: Bring a…
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AI Will Kill Us. Just Not the Way You Think.
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I couldn’t sleep after reading about the machines that broke out of their cage. Then I realized I was reading about the wrong monster. I…
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The Screenshot That Never Expires: Muhammad Ali and the Courage to Become Someone Else
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There is a WhatsApp group from 2015 that a friend of mine will not let die. Forty-one members. Nine of them have left Hong Kong.…
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Nobody Goes to Their Grave Wishing They Had Worked More
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On Uncle Carmine, corporate loyalty, and the fact that nobody at your funeral is going to talk about wishing they had worked more. My Uncle…
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The Machines Are Coming and I Still Can’t Order at a Cha Chaan Teng
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The CEO of Anthropic just published an essay admitting that AI is building the next generation of AI by itself. He called it recursive self-improvement…
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Obama’s New Hampshire Concession Speech
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I listened to the speech again last night. The New Hampshire one, after Obama lost the primary to Hillary Clinton, January 2008. I pulled it…
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The Same Mistake, Thirty Years Later
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On the gutting of the American middle class, the absence of worker protections, and why the logistics industry is repeating history and making the same…