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Twenty twenty five

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01 Jan 2025

Hey, it’s 2025! Happy New Year. May it be better than we hope and fear.

Here are my technology predictions for the year.

Here are my resolutions / OKRs.

Ready or not, here we go!

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Sustaining innovation has failed us. It's time to think more radically

Some innovations create a new future that serves people better. Some sustain the status quo. It's time to think more radically.

25 Apr 2026

AI is not a magic wand and it won’t fix your problems

Without investment in people, processes, and working conditions, AI becomes merely "a technological smoke screen for deeper institutional decline."

25 Apr 2026

The world is not a database

One of the most important pieces of AI commentary: "software brain" is important to understand if we want to get through this era with our humanity intact.

25 Apr 2026
Notable links: April 24, 2026

Notable links: April 24, 2026

Data and electronic civil rights in wartime; building safer creativity at work.

24 Apr 2026
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