About - half-baked futures

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I share essays and life updates here every few months. I often write about books, digital life, and Coming Of Age; I believe in ideas and world-building and trusting your passions. I try to strike a balance between being generative and adversarial, but as with all things, it’s a work in progress. Pledge your support I'm currently most excited about designing better information ecosystems. By day, I lead core product at Substack; by night, I run Reboot, a publication and community reimagining techno-optimism for a better collective future (we publish Kernel!). I’m also supporting Mozilla’s advocacy work on Public AI. Previously, I’ve worked on tech policy at Schmidt Futures, disaster resilience at One Concern, public interest tech curricula for Stanford CS, sustainable urbanism at ICDI, podcasting with Rebuilding Government, and researching social networks at the Oxford Internet Institute. I spend a lot of time meditating/agonizing on the relationship between theory and practice. I've o

I write about AI and Silicon Valley culture: not only what technologists build, but why they do it, and how tech makes people feel. I spend my time interviewing AI researchers, eavesdropping at SF house parties, and synthesizing how frontier technology will impact society at large. My aim is to make Silicon Valley and the rest of the world more legible to each other. I dub my approach an “anthropology of disruption.” Here’s a starter pack for my work. I publish essays here every two weeks, and am also a contributor at The Atlantic: My most popular Substack posts are on data centers, new…

About - half-baked futures

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