Numbers Are Not a Strategy. They Are a Symptom.

Numbers Are Not a Strategy. They Are a Symptom.

Meta just cut ten thousand people. Not ten thousand positions. Ten thousand human beings. People who built systems, held institutional knowledge, maintained customer relationships that took years to cultivate, and carried in their heads the invisible connective tissue...
The Shell Problem

The Shell Problem

Strip away the shell and we are startlingly identical. Narcissism, empathy, grief, ambition, shame, love – these do not belong to any race, gender, nationality, or religion. They are the human operating system, running the same core code across every population on...
The Rock and the Monk Seal

The Rock and the Monk Seal

There’s a video going around. A man throws a rock at a Hawaiian monk seal.Not just any seal. One of the most endangered marine mammals on the planet. An animal so rare, so protected, so woven into the identity of these islands that Hawaiians have a name for it:...
Curiosity Is the Prompt

Curiosity Is the Prompt

I use AI. I’ll be upfront about that. I’m also fully aware of what that means: the data annotators working in difficult conditions, the communities whose voices are underrepresented or outright missing from the training data, the structural exclusions...