The End of Best Practices: How AI Forces Us to Finally Be Creative
I’ve gotten some reactions from people who have sort of “midwit” interpreted some of my past writing as anti-AI, but that is completely wrong and…
Category: Philosophy
Writing helps me understand ideas better. If you disagree I’d love to hear how you see it differently, I’d rather not be wrong any more than I have to.
Moana is a story about today
The island gives us what we need. And no one leaves. My 18-month old daughter loves Moana. She may not realize it yet, but the…
The Myth of STEM and the “Hard” Sciences
People assume that STEM fields are somehow more valuable or serious because they are “reality-based,” while the humanities are merely matters of opinion. But reality…
The “freedom of speech isn’t freedom from consequences” fallacy
The “freedom of speech isn’t freedom from consequences” line has become one of the more common online canned responses in debate. It’s a conversation-ender designed…
The culture of progress
For 99% of human history, our default culture has been static. Most people never saw any real improvements in their lives. And if nothing can…
Dunning-Kruger But for Smart People
Smart people may be dumber than dumb people, because they have access to more ways to fool themselves and overestimate their understanding. You might be…
Cultural problems preventing progress
One thing these beliefs have in common is to the person who holds them, it really feels like they are doing something positive. In actuality…
Big Progress
Tom DehnelI run a boutique SEO consulting business in San Francisco, CA. I like to play golf, write a little bit, and argue with my…
Value your time. Trash belongs in landfills.
With a lot of Amazon returns, it’s a pointless waste of time to send the thing back to Amazon and you should throw it away…
Democracy exists to correct errors, not build consensus
People often think of democracy as a sort of “majority rule” system, where everyone gets to vote on leaders and laws and the result is…
Crushing the Myth of Late-Stage Capitalism
Capitalism is the only economic system that includes reliable, built-in incentives to solve problems by organically removing bad ideas, products, and companies, and replacing them…
The word ”impact” doesn’t have any impact at all
The growing use of the word “impact” to speak passively is weakening the English language. This week, I came across this press release on Twitter’s…