Valley Groupthink and the Tech Bubble v2.0

Another week and another round of layoffs in the Valley. Yahoo drops nearly 300 people. Toshiba says goodbye to about 50. 70 disappeared from the ranks of Autodesk. These all add to the growing number of over 3000 layoffs in the first four months of 2016 in the Valley – and that doesn’t even include…

Death to Process

This article originally appeared in MISC Magazine. I feel like I’ve written this article countless times. Still, apparently people keep being entertained and who knows – maybe I’m delusional and feel like I’m stuck in a perpetual loop but am actually evolving my thinking a little bit each time. Alas, as always, I digress. Here we…

Artificial Innovation: Teaching Computers to Speculate

When most people discuss robotics and artificial intelligence, the discussion of tasks and capabilities tends to lean towards the mundane. How can we teach robots to assemble parts? What kind of a recommendation engine can we build for movie watchers? How can we automate basic household tasks? However, as our understanding of deep learning algorithms…