From Assembly Intelligence to Artificial Intelligence My world view as a teenager was binary in at least 10 intertwined ways: all the code, obviously, and the fact that you were either elite or a “lam...

I Like Being Autistic Recently, US Eugenicist in Chief and conspiracy theory trafficker RFK Jr. held an unsurprising, yet somehow still shocking, news conference in which he reduced humanity’s existen...

The piss molecules were inside my skin. There was a cloud of urine with a 200 foot radius emanating from the drunk passed out on the sidewalk and I was already in it. I knew this was going to happen b...

As a user, Consider Offshoring Your Data and Services Privacy is a human right. Privacy requires data protection. I want America to do better. I want American tech companies to do better. I think that...

Autism and Fascism Have Crossed Paths Before—but Not How You Think “Information wants to be free”, observed Stewart Brand during a discussion with Steve Wozniak at the 1984 Hackers Conference. In hind...

Short-circuit evaluations of logical expressions can cause problematic behavior, and so can short-circuit expressions in human communications. In stressful times such as looming deadlines or other pro...

A lone engineer stands at the city gate. She built a subway station here three years ago on a sunny day. On this dark, foggy night, she wishes her flashlight shone brighter, her map was up to date and...

When I kick the bucket drum, I’ll leave behind three creations: my spawn and 10 buckets of bits. One bucket full of code and another brimming with notes. /* No, not these kinds of notes. */ Perhaps th...

At some point, your co-worker (peer or otherwise), or even an entire team, will massively screw up. Or you will. Perhaps you already have. If the latter is true, congratulations – you’re in a great pl...

Stravinsky talked about the concept of creative limitation in music being useful in order to reach new and different results. There have been TED talks on limitations as an upside. (LaaU?) Publication...

While my perception of my own knowledge path has been something like “I know nothing” -> “I know everything” -> “I know nothing”, engineers at any level can become overly convinced that their own appr...