Why shaming people about AI slop isn’t enough to stop Big AI

These days, the conversation in tech and business, and in a lot of society, is still all AI, all the time. And one of the most fundamental questions boils down...

Introducing Dashboard Touch, a build-your-own version of Touch ID

For years, I’ve wanted to have a standalone version of Apple’s Touch ID authentication feature for my Mac, but without having to use an Apple keyboard. (I...

Becoming Skilled at Making Documents

The vast majority of the documents people use to do business are really quite poor. Presentations that make your eyes glaze over, memos that are inscrutable or...

How we’ll fight the platform war against Big AI

One aspect of strategy that’s been largely lost in the tech industry in recent years is how to compete against platforms, since the major tech companies have...

Maybe it's time for lots of little indie AIs to take over

“[T]here can be alternatives. What we can imagine is, rather than the ChatGPT killer, a lot of different little AIs from little responsible players.” That’s me,...

Why are the Artemis II photos on Flickr?

If you followed along with the recent joyful celebrations of the Artemis cruise around the moon, and took a moment to dive into the photographic archives of the...

(One) Good AI Is Here

The cultural battles over AI have broken down over predictable lines in the past few years, with critics rightfully calling out the big AI platforms for...

Discovering Prince, Ten Years Later

It's been a decade since we lost Prince, and I wanted to take a moment to offer a look back at some of the pieces I've written over the years, and share some of...

The Power of Possibility

It’s rare that you get to see work that directly helps those who most deserve it, but I want to tell you about the opportunity we so seldom get to actually...

Y2K 2.0: The AI security reckoning

In just the last few weeks, we’ve seen a series of software security vulnerabilities that, until recently, would each have been the biggest exploit of the year...

When the crisis comes

These days, we’re all living in a constant state of crisis, foisted upon us by a world where those who are meant to keep things stable are the least stable...

Actually, people love to work hard

One of the most infuriating tropes that I see repeated in media is executives (usually from boring old companies) insisting that their employees don’t want to...