Year in Review — 2022
Compared to the year-long economic celebration of cheap capital in 2021, the contrast to 2022 is stark: raising interest rates, high inflation, a battered stock market, mass layoffs—and this is with a strong US...
Thoughts
Our Obsession with Ranking
We, as humans, are obsessed with ranking things. I mean, sports are one of the ultimate expressions of ranking. They're about fostering competition to find the best athletes to play a game defined...
Asking an AI the Right Questions
It feels like 2022 is the year of democratizing AI. GPT-3 made headlines back in 2020 when it launched to a limited audience and its new users played around with the tool, but it took...
Post-COVID
One of the truisms of pandemics is that they're a function of public health, which means that their duration relies on public perception as much as it does on, say, the actual science...
Subscription Wariness
A couple weeks back, people noticed that BMW has been trialing a subscription service to enable heated seats in their vehicles, which caused all manner of outrage for car enthusiasts. Since BMWs would already have...
Wither Offices in 2022?
As I'm typing this out in June of 2022, it's been 2.5 years since the original COVID-19 virus strain was first found in humans—though it certainly has felt longer...