Essays
- Palermo.
- Meaning & Responsibility.
- If Reality was a Simulation.
- On Digital Transformation.
- Meditation on Washing Dishes.
- Extracting Metadata from UNDP Public Audit Disclosures (v2).
- How Do We Know What is True?
- A Life Unlived.
- The Three Types of Wealth.
- On El Salvador & Criminal Justice.
- On the UN General Assembly Voting System.
- On Incremental Improvements.
- On Chaos.
- Automating Risk Registers at UNDP (v2).
- Question and Answer AI on Documents.
- Confidence Scores On High-Risk Project Detection.
- UNDP Digital Standards.
- Leveraging Vector Embeddings in the Development Sector.
- On The Simulation Hypothesis.
- Initial Thoughts on Metacognition.
- A Brief History of AI (Part 1)
- On-Device Large Language Model Progress.
- Breadth First Search vs Depth First Search.
- On Socratic Ideas.
- Inverse Thinking on Nuclear Weapons.
- An Initial Exploration of Democracy.
- On Government Technology Failures (Part 1).
- Philosophical Meditation.
- Involuntary Manslaughter (Part 2).
- Additional Thoughts on Utopia.
- Involuntary Manslaughter (Part 1).
- Introducing habits.am
- Judges vs Algorithms.
- The Sunny 16 Rule (Part 2).
- The Sunny 16 Rule (Part 1).
- On Homicide (Part 1).
- Dealing with an Infinite Workload.
- On Solitude.
- The 100ms Rule of Latency (Part 1).
- Harvard Referencing Guide.
- Company Assessment — Blue.
- DOPAMINE (Acronym).
- Optimizing Landing Pages.
- Why is Grass Always Greener on the Other Side of the Fence?
- Inefficiency Hurts at Any Scale.
- Actus Reus (Part 1).
- The Importance of a Free Market for Ideas.
- Further Thoughts on Rivers.
- The Ways To Think About Death.
- Should It Be Illegal To Have Sex with Child Robots?
- What Money Can’t Buy v1.
- How to use Company Assessment Tools.
- The Room That Gives You Anything.
- The Advantages of Small Organizations.
- Thoughts on Writing.
- Lessons from Cold Showers.
- Does Remote Work Enable Larger Meetings?
- On Lazy Thinking.
- Thinking Through Blue Pricing.
- My Answer to “Does This Milkshake Taste Funny?”
- Where Are All the Failures?
- Why I Am Studying an Open Degree.
- Some Problems with Capitalism.
- On Delegation.
- Decision-Making 3.
- A Mental Model for Qualifying Customers.
- On Control (Revisited).
- It Could Be Worse.
- Why You Are Fooled by Magic Tricks.
- The Joys of Scheduling.
- Initial Thoughts on the Metaverse.
- Good Management in Invisible.
- Autotelic Work.
- The Toxicity of Productivity.
- The Indefensibility of Vegetarianism.
- On Crossing a River.
- Initial Thoughts on Wealth.
- Monking Around.
- The Importance of Having a Life Philosophy.
- Understanding Leisure.
- Decision-Making 2.
- UX/UI as a Proxy of System Quality.
- Decision-Making 1.
- The Curse of the Traveller.
- Pineapple on Pizza.
- Fake Commercial Off-The-Shelf Software.
- How I Overcame My Fear of Flying.
- Meditation on the Last Time.
- Initial Thoughts on Nuclear Weapons.
- Thoughts from 40,000 Feet.
- Prioritization For Leaders.
- Talent, Concentration, and Determination.
- On Incentives.
- Thought Experiment: A Transparent Society.
- On Success.
- Cultivating Indifference.
- Thinking in Higher Time Frames.
- How to Be Content.
- Holidays.
- The Tragedy of the Commons.
- Phnom Penh (2016).
- On Luxury.
- Startup CEO Focus Areas.
- How To Install a Calendar In Your Brain.
- Vegetarian Diets.
- The Future: Utopia or Dystopia?
- Five Steps to Minimalism.
- On Anger.
- How Much is Enough?
- Lessons from Edge of Tomorrow.
- Opinions of a Time Traveller.
- Pyramids: A Waste of Time?
- How I Overcame Writer’s Block.
- Centralized vs Decentralized Systems v1.
- Thinking One Sticky Note at a Time.
- Initial Thoughts on Social Constructs.
- Western vs Eastern Happiness.
- Hitler.
- How to Live on 40 Tomatoes a Week.
- On Losing Things.
- How to Carpe Diem.
- Be Your Own Consultant.
- How to Never Fail.
- The Enchiridion of Epictetus.
- On Losing a Parent.
- 80/20 Rule.
- Experiment: Four Day Work Week.
- A Transparent Society.
- The First Ten Paying Customers.
- What Makes Me, Me? (And You, You?)
- A Discussion on Free Speech.
- Three Hours in Rome.
- Questions to a Psychotherapist.
- Enlightened Hedonism.
- The Beauty of Silence.
- On Utopia.
- The Philosophy of Sales.
- Cost-Per-Transaction Model.
- On Control.
- Making Time For Ourselves.
- What Are Good Working Habits?
- Thoughts on Teleportation.
- The Fermi Paradox.
- Fight Club Philosophy.
- On Delayed Gratification.
- The Inverted U Curves Of Life.
- Should You Go To University?
- Burn Your Ships.
- One Step.
- Overcoming Resistance.
- Ten Useful Stoic Exercises.
- The Washington Post Test.
- Controlling Emotional Responses.
- Free Will: Initial Thoughts.
- Book Summary: Homo Deus.