Ideas across time · Reading Notes
What I took away from the books and papers that changed my mind about something.
On screen
Short films with an essay attached, made for a room full of people and a big screen.
Film · 6:20 · Essay and experiment
What a feverish Dutch scientist saw in his sickroom in 1665, and why it took three centuries for anyone to build on it.
I made it to open an AI keynote. Watch it full screen with the sound up.
Watch the filmJohn Berger, and the questions we bring to an image.
Read moreGuy Debord, representation, and a question about synthetic media.
Read moreThis is an editorial selection. Pieces marked as drafts remain work in progress; published articles link to their original editions.
In conversation with
15 published pieces that start from someone else’s work: a novel finished over Christmas, a research paper, an old fable, a lecture or a report.
On a paper led by Alexander Meulemans: why foundation-model agents may cooperate in a one-shot Prisoner’s Dilemma, and what that means for large populations of agents.
The agentic enterprise
There is an old Greek storyteller named Aesop (you may remember the tortoise and the hare) whose genius had nothing to do with animals.
Work, economy & the future
In the span of a few days in late February 2026, two documents landed in the financial and technology discourse with sharply…
Work, economy & the future
Today is March 14th—Pi Day, a celebration of the most famous irrational number in history. Pi is a mathematical constant, an unbroken thread that runs through geometry, physics, and even the algorithms that drive AI.
Ideas & culture
In a recent Bloomberg article, "AI Will Upend a Basic Assumption About How Companies Are Organized," ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-28/how-ai-reasoning-models-will-change-companies-and-the-economy ) a…
Work, economy & the future
Their internal study of 132 engineers reveals something we need to start accounting for in our business cases: 27% of AI-assisted…
Work, economy & the future
For years, the conversation in boardrooms and tech conferences has revolved around the same big question: will AI replace human workers?
Work, economy & the future
Two days ago, Seth Godin wrote a piece I particularly enjoyed called ‘The Writer’s Room’.
Ideas & culture
I just read the paper ‘Genius on Demand: The Value of Transformative Artificial Intelligence’.
Work, economy & the future
We’re standing at the edge of a technological revolution, and artificial intelligence (AI) is at its heart.
Work, economy & the future
What the idea of liminality can teach data and AI leaders about working between an established order and one that has not yet taken shape.
Ideas & culture
In a study published by Eloundou et al. it is predicted that 80% of the U.S. workforce will have at least 10% of their work affected by #AI . This impact is increasingly impacting white collar jobs - the work of knowledge workers.
Work, economy & the future
Over Christmas, I finished Upgrade by Blake Crouch and hit that familiar wall: the story ends, you want more, but there’s no sequel.
Ideas & culture
Ideas & culture
“Better questions lead to better worlds.”Dinand Tinholt
