Essays & notes

“Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise…”

-Bertrand Russell

In these essays I try to make things precise:

• Do not expect the unexpected
• Can environmentalism be positive?
• On Google
• What changed in tech from 2010 to 2020?
• Churchill tries to predict 1981
• Why do we teach public speaking but not public listening?
• The biggest bug in the English language
• On Netflix
• Why do some misconceptions persist?
• On the zipper merge
• Prices are tools for underdogs
• Good news about malaria
• Why does Google think the slowest animal is the sloth?
• On technology
• On spaceflight
• On self-driving cars
• Is data scientist the hottest job in America?
• Predictions about the year 2050
• The power of sometimes
• The Moore's Law of Moore's Laws