The corporate jargon of change masks the decimation of intellectual life.
Art or tool?
The Internet spaces I tend to inhabit have more polarisation than at many other recent times, and little explication of the worldviews that lead to different premises for discussion, that in turn...
Guide to Incrementals/Defining the Genre | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
Creative Technologists are moving from the margins to the center
Once an obscure job title, creative technology is becoming a new way of working, and a core capability inside modern product teams. Soon…
Crossing the River by Feeling the Stones - Simon Wardley
The Surprising Value of Obvious Insights | MIT Sloan Management Review
Confirming what people already believe can sometimes help organizations overcome barriers to change.
Becoming a stranger in my own field
There is a difference between making scientific work more accessible and changing what institutions recognize as valuable scientific work.
Advent Incremental | The Paper Pilot
The Paper Pilot's digital garden of thoughts on philosophy, politics, and sociology
The rise of AI ‘civilizations’ and the fall of corporate responsibility
The internet fights over anthropomorphism around the Hugging Face hack.
'The Drama' and the microgenerational digital divide
PLUS: The "forklift model" of A.I. education
The scientific enterprise is a human enterprise
An excerpt from my newly-defended PhD dissertation.
Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity
Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
I got into tech six years ago because I figured I could have an outsized impact on making a less harmful, more empowering world for workers and marginalised people. Only this year, I started connecting IRL with people who think this way. Here I tried to write about the ways that's transformed me.
DWeb, Culture and Resistance
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