Writing
Essays, perspectives, notes
Longer-form thinking on integrated science, agentic systems, and the parts of building that don't make it into the case study. Opinions here are mine and are subject to revision when the evidence says so.
Why I went looking for a major that didn't exist
The silos between the natural sciences are an administrative fact, not a fact about the world. On arguing with department chairs, recording evoked potentials, and why the ceiling on what one brain can hold pushed me toward computation.
ELIZA is still the most important result in AI
Surface fluency carries almost no information about the mechanism underneath. That was true of a string-matching program in 1966 and it's true of everything shipping today, except now we've lost the ability to measure the gap.
Hello world
The origins of Kelly Enterprises, and what applied consulting taught me about where the interesting problems actually live.