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- The Light from a Dying Star is from the Past Dec 2025You're not taking AI overhangs seriously enough
- Responsible AI is dying. Long live responsible AI. Sep 2025How you, yes you, can help build a better future with AI.
- A Billion Dollars isn't cool. You know what is? Ten million dollars. Sep 2025AI can revive the middle class business model
- Superagency and ADHD Aug 2025Imagining a world look like where more people can just do things
- Solving LLM hallucinations is (mostly) a UX problem Jul 2025Why LLM hallucinations are primarily a UX challenge rather than an algorithmic one, and how design improvements can mitigate their impact on users.
- Building Successful Responsible AI Teams Nov 2024A practical guide to building responsible AI teams that succeed by aligning with business goals, hiring builders over framework-creators, and focusing on empirical risk management.
- Skeptical optimists are the key to an abundant AI future Apr 2023Beyond doomers and accelerationists: why skeptical optimists who believe AI problems are solvable with effort are essential for building an abundant AI future.
- Selecting on the dependent variable Nov 2022Why business books and productivity advice often commit the error of selecting on the dependent variable, and how to spot this common reasoning flaw.
- Quantification bias Oct 2022Why new systems that afford quantitative measurement face disproportionate scrutiny compared to incumbent systems, and why we should hold all systems to the same standards.
- The rise of the data product manager Jul 2022The emergence of a new kind of product manager who understands data infrastructure, ML, and how to build products where data is at the core of the value proposition.
- Software development skills for data scientists Jul 2022Notes from my own job search on what to expect in data science interviews, from technical screens to on-site interviews, and how to prepare for both type A and type B data scientist roles.
- The acute pain and chronic reward of public-facing work Jul 2022Reflections on the emotional toll of producing public-facing work like open source or writing, where criticism flows fast while rewards reveal themselves slowly.
- Do you have time for a quick chat? Jul 2022Guidelines for requesting informational coffee chats that respect the other person's time and increase your chances of getting a response.
- Software development skills for data scientists Jul 2022Essential software engineering skills that data scientists need to collaborate effectively: version control, code review, testing, documentation, and writing modular code.
- Why good data scientists make good product managers Jul 2022The natural affinities between data science and product management, plus the challenges data scientists face when making the transition to PM roles.
- Hiring data scientists Jul 2022A better approach to hiring data scientists: treat candidates as intelligent humans, use homework assignments over whiteboard coding, and build a process that leads to equitable outcomes.
- Getting started in data science Jul 2022A guide to getting started in data science, covering the essential foundations in math, statistics, experiments, machine learning, and tooling that aspiring data scientists need.