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Review: Careless People

There's a particular subgenre of tech industry book that piques my interest. Chaos Monkeys, Uncanny Valley, Extremely Hardcore—they purport to reveal the dirty underbelly of Silicon Valley, a true on-the-ground retelling of...

Founder Appeasement

So, I'm a tad late to this article about Airbnb and their big launch a few months ago. The gist is that Airbnb, as its core vacation and remote work rental business saturates...

Pulling Up vs. Pushing Down

We're now 2+ years into the tech downturn. Companies, with or without AI as a driver, continue to announce major layoffs, seemingly every month or two. No one advocates for teaching everyone to...

AI De-Identity

Of all the use cases for AI, the one that feels the most dystopian, Black Mirror -esque is its ability to replicate personalities. Companies like character.ai already offer models trained on historical personas and...

The Wearable Decade

For about two decades, the blistering pace of smartphone hardware improvements has driven manufacturing advances. We've made massive engineering improvements in all the components in the latest flagship phones: touch screens, systems-on-a-chip, tiny...

Fueling Infrastructure

It's a shame that hydrogen fuel cells didn't work out for cars. On their face, fuel cells were natural successors to gasoline for consumer vehicles: the energy density by weight is...