Is it already the end of 2025? Wow. Last year, I wrote a Year in Review with time to spare. Not so much this year - I've been working on projects in Claude Code before the new year starts and time just got away from me. So this post will be a far lighter effort than the one before. But I knew what theme this year would be about even before it was over. Last year, I said it was clarity. This year, it's been connection . And I have a feeling I know what next year's theme will

Models learned emergent behaviors and values despite guardrails designed to prevent them from becoming selfish. 1 Except these models were trained on data from the Internet - not exactly a paragon of human behavior. We know that data quality and curation is important when training models - if you don't have many examples of what the desired outcome looks like then the model is just not going to be able to figure it out. Even if you have guardrails. The equivalent of telling

I have things I want to talk about that don’t fit in LinkedIn’s ‘get a job, buy my service’ self-promoting content - things like, did you ever wonder why shareholder value is considered the primary goal of companies? And is that the right thing to do? Yeah I didn’t get much engagement on that post. I tried it on Twitter, too - zilch. I’m trying to find people who aren’t just anonymously posting about serious topics on Reddit forums, people who are willing to actually have fa

Muir woods - a giant tree sanctuary! 2024 was a big year for me personally and professionally. If I had to sum it up in one word - it's " AI. " Just kidding. It's " clarity. " I feel as though I know what I want for the first time. It took a while to get here. Along the way, I made a lot of new connections, learned a lot of new skills, and discovered things I didn't expect to. Leveling Up Never stop learning - there's never a better time to start than now. I was late to the A

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In "AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order," Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, with his rich background in the tech world (including significant academic contributions to machine learning and executive experiences at Apple, SGI, Microsoft, and Google), delves into the complexities of AI and its impact on the global stage. He offers insights on how AI might automate jobs, and stresses the importance of data, comparing its value to oil in the digital age. Lee also contras