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Why Machines Learn: A Quiet History of How Learning Became an Algorithm
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Why Machines Learn rewards slow reading. It is structured less like a linear argument and more like a guided walk through the intellectual terrain that made modern machine learning possible. Each major section takes a foundational idea—learning rules, error correction, representation, probability—and places it within a longer scientific lineage, showing…
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The Shock Doctrine of Corporate Layoffs – Human Capital, Disposable People
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In January 2026, Amazon announced another large round of layoffs, cutting roughly 16,000 corporate roles worldwide. This followed earlier reductions in late 2025, bringing the total number of eliminated corporate positions to around 30,000 within a matter of months. The announcement arrived even as the company reported healthy financial performance…
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Life Is Not a Solvable Problem
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Most people live as if life owes them coherence. They assume that if they behave sensibly, choose carefully, work hard, and avoid obvious mistakes, the world will respond in kind. This belief is rarely stated explicitly, but it sits beneath almost every private disappointment and public outrage. When effort fails…
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The Ritual of Formality: Why We Keep Wishing When We Don’t Mean It
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Every year, without fail, it happens. Calendars tick over. Notifications erupt. Phones vibrate with predictable precision. Birthdays. New Years. Festivals. Anniversaries. Entire social networks suddenly come alive—people who have been silent for months, sometimes years, re-emerge to send a message that looks uncannily similar to a hundred others. “Happy New…
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We Don’t Lack Time. We Lack Honesty About Our Priorities.
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We like to believe we are principled people. We say things like “I can’t miss work,” “I don’t break commitments,” or “My health comes first.” These statements sound responsible. Mature. Final. They are none of those things. Because the truth is simpler and far less flattering: our priorities are elastic.…
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Living Normally While the World Burns
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The Uneasy Coexistence We Can No Longer Ignore At almost any moment today, millions of people across the world are living under conditions that would be considered unthinkable elsewhere—constant fear, displacement, hunger, loss of family, and the daily uncertainty of survival. Ongoing conflicts in places such as Sudan, Palestine, Ukraine,…
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Company Picnics, Pink Slips, and the Trust Gap
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Over the years, I’ve noticed a pattern in many companies. There’s a lot of effort put into celebrating employees and their families — family days at the office, pictures of kids drawing on whiteboards, parents being invited to see where their son or daughter works. It’s all heartwarming. These events…
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Building a Payin Product: The Journey from Zero to One
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Over the last many months, I’ve had the privilege of working on the creation of a payin product from the ground up. Unlike improving an existing system, building something entirely new is about carving a path where none exists. It is filled with decisions that can seem small in the…