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The American Worker vs the Most Qualified Person
This story started with a rage-bait comment from British tech entrepreneur Paul Graham:
I believe the most qualified person should get the job.
There are many ways to approach this statement, which lives passive-aggressively inside the...
AI’s Culpability Crisis
Can we come to a social and cultural agreement on who is responsible when an AI breaks the law?
For more on AI and legal responsibility check out my essay “Stone the Algorithms”, published in my book A Misfit Highwire Act.
Data Centers Are A Culture War
I moved from Seattle to Chattanooga in 2021. My house in Seattle was less than a mile from Microsoft campus. Whenever I went to an after-hours tech get-together or happy hour, everyone who attended worked at Google, Facebook, Amazon, Micros...
An Odyssey with Dr Richard Whitaker
Following the last podcast / interview with Jireh Gardo about the pitfalls of Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey, I was pleasantly surprised to find myself in correspondence with the Dr Richard Whitaker, the author of Homer’s Odyssey...
Fixing What Woke Broke
Are we past the excesses of "peak woke" or still stuck with the consequences? How could we fix it?
There was a recent minor fracas on twitter (where all the important fracases are held) in which Kat Rosenfield noted that, during the height...
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