Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson A history of innovation that dispels many myths and explores the environments that encourage breakthroughs. Your Data Will Be Used Against You by Andrew Guthrie Ferguson An examination of privacy law and why it needs an update to its application in the digital era. Recoding America by…
Self-awareness, real-world application, and cultural alignment are the top three areas that I hope to assess during a behavioral interview. I put together a few questions that you will want to ensure you answer during an interview. Self-awareness: Does your self-perception match reality? Can you recognize your own strengths and weaknesses? Do you make informed…
Ring has actively courted and catered their video camera services to police departments. Most Ring devices store their captured video in the cloud. Police departments don’t need a warrant to view these videos; they simply ask Ring. Government agencies like ICE are not allowed to access these videos without a warrant. But, in practice, they…
Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant A deep dive into the Luddite movement during the industrial revolution in England with many lessons for the AI revolution of today. The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, and Kaely Warner Klemp A great leadership book to develop self-awareness and to approach every…
You’ve seen the articles. Massive layoffs coupled with a company’s adoption of AI technology. They paint a bleak picture of the employment future for us humans. But they are lying. Lying with the truth, or at least with a combination of true facts. While it is true that many companies are both making large capital…
Whenever you hear an AI researcher dismiss criticism as pearl clutching, you should hold onto what matters and start paying attention. I saw this play out during a recent panel where concerns about using GenAI for mental health support were categorized as old-fashioned thinking. We don’t worry when someone sits alone journaling for mental health…
I think this will be one of the lasting lessons that I will remember from the current AI era. There are many really smart people who have conflicting ideas about how things will turn out and what choices we should make. Some of them will be wrong. You could argue that self-interest is motivating some…
Untangled by Lisa Damour A wonderful guide for parents raising teenage girls. Notes on Being A Man by Scott Gallaway Authentic to the core. An exploration of the challenges modern men face and tips to overcome them. They Just Need To Get A Job – 15 Myths On Homelessness by Mary Brosnahan This booked helped…
A winner-takes-all mentality marked the early days of ChatGPT. The major AI labs were all openly chasing Artificial General Intelligence. An AGI breakthrough would supposedly kick off an intelligence explosion. This in turn would trigger a chain reaction of recursive self-improvement; whoever got there first would be forever uncatchable. Generative AI research was positioned as…
White Fragility by Robin Diangelo I was a bit intimidated by this book, but it turned out to be much gentler than I thought it would be. Terms used to talk about racism in the contemporary United States have different definitions than what I grew up with. I think it is often these new definitions…