Field notes
Blog
Articles and thoughts on machine intelligence, building products, and the work between research and production.
- Blogging in 2025
Writing as a thinking exercise, and an insurance policy against brain atrophy in the age of LLMs.
- The Unknown Knowns
On the limits of the reductionist mind, and the unknown intuitions that help us navigate the cosmos.
- IT and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
What do you do anyway? I sell people the illusion of having everything under control.
- Everything is an Optimization Problem, Isn't It?
We all do optimize, but what are we optimizing exactly?