Training Intuition

Last night someone told me about Hubert Dreyfus, and specifically his books What Computers Can’t Do and What Computers Still Can’t Do. There’s lots of reading ahead. I found this video of an interview that touches on the limitations of AI, the nature of expertise, and mastery of …

Evolutionary Reordering

Natural organisms have evolved to fuel themselves from their environments, from photosynthesis, to grazing, to scavenging, to predation, to parasitism. The ability to fuel autonomously was a prerequisite and constraint on development of any higher-order function. This much seems …

Scaling and Standardization

At the most recent Lean Coffee Austin event we had an interesting discussion around the topic of scaling engineering teams. The introduction to the discussion went something like this: I’ve done this several different times in different organizations. Each time I figured out som…

Moats and AI Revisited

What business models and positioning are defensible in an AI-powered world? What moats will remain as AI grows more capable? Over the past few months I’ve put these questions to everyone who will listen, and then some, and incorporated the compelling answers into my list. It’s ti…

Linuxulator for the Win

Last month I wrote up an approach to working with two operating systems with a single-boot system. This approach consisted of invoking Linux binaries under chroot -n. It seemed more complicated than necessary, and it was. The driving issue was trying to set up a Python environmen…