Writing
Essays on technology, industry structure, institutions, and society. Each piece gets its own page so it accrues authority over time.
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Data governance problems predate LLMs; agents just removed the human backstop. What the grounding loop demands of an organization: named owners, an enforceable platform contract, and a Captain.
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General models get smarter; enterprise value moves to the people who ground them. A three-layer framework — foundation, meaning, evaluation — for making enterprise data legible and verifiable to machines.
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I appealed my property tax assessment. The county's own data showed me my appeal was one instance of something much bigger: Proposition 13 now runs a two-sided distortion.
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AT&T–Time Warner, Disney–Fox, Netflix's $8B content bet: decoding the vertical-integration wave remaking television, and what it means for the people watching.
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Six delayed flights and one diagnosis: Nigeria's air-travel mess comes down to government-owned airports, hostile policy, and mismanagement — plus a fix.
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A cash-only barbershop ordeal becomes the case for a cashless society, with India's demonetization as the cautionary tale.
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On the collapse of shared facts: how social media and partisan news destroyed the hierarchy of trusted sources, and what that costs a democracy.
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How streaming, 3D, and digital cinematography are reshaping how films get made, distributed, and sold — and why VR is next.
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The case for data in the developing world: better governance, healthcare, education, and business through collecting and analyzing it.
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The obligatory first post: a serial procrastinator, inspired at 4am on the second day of Lent, finally starts writing.