Rants, Essays & Commentary
Trying to make sense of it all one day at a time
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A Flywheel for Good
Jeff Bezos is known for, among other things, perpetuating Jim Collins’s metaphor of a flywheel in business. It is basically this concept in startup culture that preaches a self-perpetuating business model where your growth feeds back into building out your infrastructure which feeds back into more growth. I’m not the first to say it, and […]
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In Memory of My Father
He was not just a loving, kind and patient father, he was literally my privilege in life. Everything that I am, my integrity, my drive, my intelligence, my love for science and storytelling, the very way I think, was all modeled after him.
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Exploring the Meaning of Life: Insights from Survey & Other Insights
Thank you so much for your interest, and for taking the time to fill out my ‘Meaning of Life’ survey in the first place.
Although I can’t say that I have “figured it all out”, this whole process has really helped me understand my own beliefs on these topics
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Apple’s Long Awaited Rollout of AI
This last Monday was the first day of Apple’s annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), commonly referred to as Dub Dub. It is Apple’s time to show off their latest in innovations and plans for the Fall. This year Apple’s big announcement is that AI is coming to their platforms but they cheekily rebranded it to […]
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A mostly proud owner of the Apple Vision Pro headset
I am what they call an “early adopter” (aka: huge nerd), it is most likely my dad’s influence. He was an electrical engineer in aerospace and we had some of the first personal computers in our home, and when he gave me his hand-me-down Palm V (image below) that he got from work, I became […]
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No big deal, AI is just figuring the building blocks of life
Google was one of the first companies to start investing heavily in AI, well over a decade ago, they developed and released open source frameworks like TensorFlow, spent billions developing their TPU coprocessors, and acquired a cutting edge UK based AI research lab which became Google’s Deep Mind division. Around 2014 after developing several successful […]
