June 2026

  • AI Democratization and Its Discontents

    On the feedback loop that AI’s democratization left behind What happens to a technology once it stops being the property of the few who understand it deeply and becomes available to the many who simply want to use it. We have come to call this democratization, and it is, on balance, a wonderful thing. But…

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  • Research Is Not Engineering at a Slower Speed

    Three kinds of work, three success criteria, and why confusing them is costly. Early in my career I worked at Bell Labs, where one could work on any intellectually challenging problem, whether or not it had immediate relevance to the mothership AT&T. Later I worked at startups where the pressure to sell and ship was…

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