Essays
This writing represents a conversation with myself through time. If unsure what to read, try War and Business, College and Technical Maturity, or Welcome to the Future. The essays are from newest to oldest, with the last essay having been written in 2019. Over time, this collection has grown to include some brief technical notes on various things, marked with a (*).
- The Assassination of Shinzō Abe
- Befriending the Machine
- Transformer attention, a short introduction*
- Tocqueville and the American experiment
- Uniqueness and Leverage
- The Butcher and the Brain Surgeon
- Opacity Bias
- Physics and Psychohistory
- College and Technical Maturity
- Hesitations on Economics I: Falsifiability
- Hesitations on Economics II: Epistemology
- Vaclav Smil
- Pedestrian and Profound
- Welcome To The Future
- Clusters
- Cityscapes
- War and Business as Vectors for Innovation
- A Year in Silicon Valley, II
- A Year in Silicon Valley, I