A Billion Is Not Just a Big Million
Our intuitions quietly give up somewhere past a few thousand. Here is what a billion actually looks like.
AI is not foolproof either.
Nine years ago, I wrote that search engines look for relevance, not truth. The box answers you directly now, and the problem didn’t go away — it got quieter.
The Line We Can’t Draw: The Orphan and the Pig
We already refuse to farm our most vulnerable. Consistency asks us to mean it.
The Problems That Lose By Default
Water infrastructure has no news cycle. That is the whole problem.
The Grass-Is-Greener Loop
Why the other tool, the other setup, the other way of doing it always looks cleaner than the one in your hands; and how to stop circling.
Who I Am: Why I’m an Agnostic
If you’ve been here before, you might be surprised that agnosticism only ranks third in how I describe myself—after “straight,…
We are made to forget what we are eating
You are not asked to believe that animals are not killed for your dinner. You are simply never put in…