SAM Frida
Unfiltered – ish
Writing on the Wall
When the people building the most powerful technology in human history start buying the silence of those meant to govern it, we should all be paying attention. Most of us aren't. John O'Farrell left Andreessen Horowitz in May. He was the firm's first outside general...
Words Without Weight
On the people who say all the right things, yet mean almost none of them. Some of us take words literally. When you say you will do something, we file it as a fact. Not a maybe. Not a social nicety. A commitment. A real thing that is going to happen. There are more of...
On Losing Paul
There are people who know you, and then there are people who see you. Paul saw me. During a hard time in my life, when it would have been easy to step back, he didn’t. He just kept showing up. That’s all I need to say about that, and it’s everything. He was one of the...
The Divide Walked Into a Therapy Room. Nobody Flinched.
I was watching Couples Therapy, Season 3, Episode 10, when something stopped me cold. The therapist is Israeli. Her patient is Palestinian, from Ramallah. At some point during the session, the therapist mentions that she is Israeli. The patient responds: I know. Sit...
The Decoding Happens After You Get Hit
I thought we had the same definition of friendship. That is the thing about assumptions – they are invisible until they are not. Two people can use the same word, mean entirely different things, and walk alongside each other for years before the gap becomes visible....
The Ones Who Made It Through
Marjane Satrapi died today. Aged 56. Of sadness, according to those who loved her, a little over a year after the death of her husband, the love of her life. She survived the Islamic Revolution. She survived exile. She survived the war inside herself long enough to...
When AI Tells You to Go to Sleep: The Human Element Machines Keep Missing
Something interesting happened to me recently in a conversation with an AI assistant. I was in the middle of processing something complex and emotionally charged, late at night, and the AI told me to go to bed. I did not want to go to bed. I wanted to keep going. When...
We Need Translators
The layer missing from every AI ecosystem isn't a better model. It isn't a faster chip or a smarter benchmark. It's people who can stand in the space between the system and the human, and actually translate, not just technically, but psychologically, philosophically,...
The Interview Goes Both Ways
Most people walk into an interview trying to prove they are worth hiring. They rehearse their answers, polish their LinkedIn profile, and hope the number at the end of the conversation is high enough. What they rarely do is sit across from that hiring manager and ask...