Essays on how we think, work, and live.
When creating gets easier, who does the work of understanding?
What becomes valuable when everyone can build quickly?
What remains when an idea loses its decoration?
How knowing a system's limitations becomes a form of mastery.
When creating gets easier, who does the work of understanding?
An ancient name for the voice beside our thinking.
What becomes valuable when everyone can build quickly?
What remains of expertise when access to knowledge opens up?
What remains when an idea loses its decoration?
A new capability can do more than make the old plan cheaper.
The capital behind the promise of a one-person business.
When access to compute becomes an advantage that compounds.
The case for thinking that refuses to follow a straight line.
What becomes precious when the work can run without us?
A world where familiar routines outlast the work behind them.
What does a measure of the unaided mind leave out?
What changes when a child's questions no longer have to wait?
A worst-case scenario in which each economic shock feeds the next.
Better tools expose what a lack of tools once concealed.
The learned decisions hidden inside what feels like instinct.
What happens to seniority when its scarce knowledge becomes abundant?
The responsibility that begins after something has been created.
What happens to memory and appearance when images no longer need a camera?
What remembering becomes when the record can answer back.
Why a small mistake can make competence more human.
The writer follows a path. The reader wants to arrive.
When thinking about every step gets in the way of taking one.
Why a tighter grip can make a familiar task harder.
The understanding that only appears once the work begins.
The light buyers a neat 80/20 rule can hide.
Why understanding a younger audience goes deeper than sounding young.
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