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Review: Careless People
There's a particular subgenre of tech industry book that piques my interest. Chaos Monkeys, Uncanny Valley, Extremely Hardcore—they purport to reveal the dirty underbelly of Silicon Valley, a true on-the-ground retelling of major events and points in…
Founder Appeasement
So, I'm a tad late to this article about Airbnb and their big launch a few months ago. The gist is that Airbnb, as its core vacation and remote work rental business saturates the market, has been looking…
Authentic Voice
Never underestimate our ability to normalize the extraordinary. Less than two years ago, I witnessed the rapid adoption of ChatGPT in trivially outputting prose: translating messages, prettifying emails, and, of course, generating high school and college essays of arbitrary length.…
Pulling Up vs. Pushing Down
We're now 2+ years into the tech downturn. Companies, with or without AI as a driver, continue to announce major layoffs, seemingly every month or two. No one advocates for teaching everyone to code anymore. While it was…
Review: The Belgariad and The Malloreon
It was raining again. The young student peered out the window, the skies overcast with gray clouds tracing rivers from the sky, soaking the earth until dirt paths became muddy trails. A journey of two thousand leagues has culminated in…
AI De-Identity
Of all the use cases for AI, the one that feels the most dystopian, Black Mirror -esque is its ability to replicate personalities. Companies like character.ai already offer models trained on historical personas and celebrities, but a research paper…
