Month: February 2022

  • The problem with tech companies

    Part of the problem with tech companies in general is that they don’t actually have to exist and I think everyone knows it, like in their soul. Tech, particularly Silicon Valley tech, is not actually valuable in any intrinsic way, and so if the Internet were to suddenly vanish, and everyone who knows how to…

  • taxonomy of the data landscape

  • The only safe computer

    The only safe computer is a computer that has no electricity. The rest of the time you are just counting on probability to be on your side, which is an inherently horrible strategy to manage risk because it conveys the illusion of safety while also affording zero agency in that safety. E.g.: We probably won’t…