Essays Archive

Original essays on artificial intelligence, strategic thinking, and the ideas shaping our world.

Hard Problems, AlphaFold, and a Minor in Biology

Apr 16, 20263 min read

For over 50 years, protein folding was one of science's hardest unsolved problems. AlphaFold changed that. This essay explores what that breakthrough reveals about AI's potential to make the impossible possible.

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Coding Is Evolving Into Something Else Entirely

Mar 29, 20264 min read

The medium of coding has always evolved. We are now at a point where it evolves into something else entirely — and that changes who gets to build.

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