In a world where implementation is commoditized, ideas will be king. That world is just round the corner. It’s been almost two weeks since I took my head out of the sand to fully appreciate the advancements made in Artificial Intelligence over the last few years, and especially in the…

One of the greatest ironies of the last few months was when we found out that decentralized finance (De-Fi) was, in fact, centralized. De-Fi’s hostility towards the Cathedral was not entirely founded on the technology itself. Although blockchain-backed financial assets don’t need to have any trusted centre of control to…

The following is a semi-structured brain dump of observations I’ve made as a consumer of products and services, mainly software and consumer tech. I preface this with the following disclaimer: that I have only undergrad-level education in Human-Computer Interaction (a semester’s course that, oddly enough, I actually enjoined), an average…

There are a number of tasks authors writing speculative fiction perform that offer us readers a handle on the “extent” of their creativity. By a wide margin my favourite example has got to be Lewis Carroll’s nonsense poetry. Jabberwocky is, for me, a highlight of Carroll’s creative instinct. …

I stalled on writing this a few days ago, because I needed a break after an intense week-long writing sprint. The thesis I had wanted to explore could be summarised this way: in many complex-enough fields, there isn’t one true way to achieve an end. This is sometimes the case…

Following conversations I’ve had with friends, and threads on the Internet about the recent leaps in AI and the questions they’re raising, I thought it’ll be interesting to document a few arguments from people currently disagreeing about AGI and its proximity to human and animal intelligence. They lack autonomy One line of argument…

When you’re one of the ‘tech people’ in your small church community, and when you have friends in just the right places, it’s only a matter of time before you’re asked to build a site. That was how some colleagues and I found ourselves with the task of helping our…

If you’re not using Profiles on your browser, you’re missing out. If you’re using them on Firefox, you’re hurting but you don’t know it. If you stick to Safari, I’m so, so sorry. Introduction When Profiles launched on Google Chrome, it was a game changer. I’ve often struggle to remember how…

Yesterday I tried Render.com on a brother’s recommendation. It blew my mind. I’ll share a few thoughts as a day-old user, and give the context later. What I love about Render.com No CLI needed. While in conversation with him about my experience, I joked that “no service deserved to take up extra resources on my…