When History Catches Up With Fiction: Venezuela, Dictat
One of the quiet shocks of following world events is how often they feel familiar — not because we’ve lived them before, butRead More
The Application Layer Is Underinvested
There’s a line I keep coming back to in Andrew Ng’s recent thinking on AI: the application layer is underinvested. Not misunderstood. NotRead More
From Havana to Caracas: How Revolutions Echo Across the
How Cuba and Venezuela reveal the long echoes of revolution — and why historical fiction like Havana Famiglia helps explain what headlines miss.
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Tree House
I was back in Beaver, in the woods behind the dog enclosure, looking at the treehouse I had built more than fifty yearsRead More
Another Chapter: Announcing Havana Famiglia.
Instead of a new chapter, I decided to write twenty. Havana Famiglia brings Magnus and Finn back to Havana—1958 and 2016—where memory, endurance,Read More
We Are Going to Die
Living a meaningful life means choosing experiences, connection, growth, and risk over comfort and distraction—knowing time is finite.
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Burning Building
“The world is violent and mercurial…it will have its way with you. We are saved only by love…love for each other andRead More
Narrative, narrative, narrative.
Some weeks, a theme keeps showing up in my inbox until it demands a post. Lately, that theme has been narrative—who owns it,Read More
Humans Need Humans
Humans need humans. No matter how fast the models get, how crisp the renderings become, or how frictionless the interfaces feel, we’re still wiredRead More
I think Meta’s Avatars Are Missing One Thing: Soul
‘We invested $70 billion to discover that people don’t actually want to attend meetings as soulless cartoon avatars.’
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