Hello.

I am a data scientist product manager machine learning engineer human being.

I'm very interested in the potential of technology to increase economic opportunity. While I've been taking a break from public writing, you can find my existing writing here.

Ideas of interest

I'm something of a generalist by nature, but I seem to return to some evergreen ideas repeatedly. I'll break these out into essays eventually. A short list:

• Conway's Law
• Collective action problems, including prisoners' dilemmas and free rider problems
• Bounded rationality
• Brokerage in networks and structural holes
• Mimetic isomorphism, especially as it relates to tech company practices
• Most pulished research findings are false
• Selection on the dependent variable is endemic

Guiding topics

Beyond that, most of my reading and learning interests fall into the following buckets:

• Progress studies
• Responsible but rapid innovation in ML and AI
• Responsible AI ∩ Progress studies
• Institutional analysis, backlash effects, and policy feedback
• Building the future faster
• The abundance agenda
• Supply-side progressivism
• Up-wing politics