“How well do you know Bob?” is a hard question to answer. If someone asked you to introduce them to someone you’re connected to on LinkedIn, there are some people you can just text and say “yo! You should talk to this person”; for other people you would weigh seriously... [Read More]

My notes on the thought-provoking book The Collapse of Complex Societies. Recommended to me by Eli Dourado, whose notes you can find here. [Read More]

(Skippable Backstory) A few months ago, Tammy Winter published a thread of advice for precocious young people. My addendum to it was the following: [Read More]

A project I’m working on forced me to wade into the discourse about semiconductors – especially the economics of older chip manufacturing processes and claims about the importance of bleeding edge processes for AI. I wrote this piece mostly to clarify my own understanding but I thought it might be... [Read More]

For Inktober I did a drawing not-quite-each day illustrating something that is useful/interesting to know more about. The topics were (Click name to jump to the image): Dyson Sphere How Learning a Field Actually Works Crystal Structures O’Niell Cylinders What Very Online Networking Looks like Molecular Vibrations Project Orion Research... [Read More]