Coding Horrorby Jeff Atwood6 Mar 2025
A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work.
decor8by Holly Becker23 Feb 2025
Are You Codependent on Your Business? I’ll be honest: running a small business is personal. It’s not just about products, posts, or profits.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans18 Feb 2025
The Deep Research problem Most what I do for a living is research and analysis. I think of data I’d like to see and go looking for it; I compile and collate it, make charts, decide they’re boring...
Zac Sweersby Zac Sweers17 Feb 2025
We said goodbye to mom in May after a five year battle with cancer. She left on her own terms, under the care of the wonderful University of Vermont hospice network and Act 39.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty16 Feb 2025
Imagine this: you’re at a zoo. But not just any zoo—the Existential Zoo, where the enclosures don’t hold animals but stages of human transformation.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans22 Jan 2025
Are better models better? Every week, there’s a new model, a new approach, and something new to play with. And every week, people ask me ‘have you tried o1 Pro? Phi 4?
Erik Kroes - Accessibility Consultantby Erik Kroes24 Sept 2024
Community, corporations and more Posted on Summer 2023 I made an overview of things I was doing. Summer 2024 is behind us, and now I've got a new list. And my goodness, what a list it is.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans19 Aug 2024
Competing in search A search engine is a vast mechanical Turk - a reinforcement learning engine that uses human activity to understand the web.
The Gradientby Joel Lehman3 Aug 2024
Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy.
Slack Designby andyacevedo22 Jul 2024
Let’s face it: besides “let’s take this offline,” the word culture is one of the most overused pieces of corporate jargon.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans9 Jul 2024
The AI summer My old boss Marc Andreessen liked to say that every failed idea from the Dotcom bubble would work now.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans8 Jul 2024
The VR winter continues It can feel a little odd to write about anything other than generative AI these days, but I sometimes remind people that all the things that we were talking about in October...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans20 Jun 2024
Apple intelligence and AI maximalism No-one outside Apple has really used any Apple Intelligence features yet.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans8 Jun 2024
Building AI products I will fly to India on Monday for a brief trip, and so I just spent an hour struggling through a very buggy online visa application process.
ARKives1 Jun 2024
The Mapping Evolution in My Life Posts from "Mapping for Tomorrow: Building Resilience Through OpenStreetMap Contributions" series: Table of contents: Why are you contributing to OpenStreetMap?
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans4 May 2024
Ways to think about AGI In 1946, my grandfather, writing as ‘Murray Leinster’, published a science fiction story called ‘A Logic Named Joe’.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans29 Apr 2024
AI and problems of scale There’s a story in one of Georges Simeon’s 1930s detective stories that I think about sometimes when talking about a certain kind of AI problem.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans19 Apr 2024
Looking for AI use-cases This image comes from a book by Martin Honeysett called ‘Microphobia’, published in 1982.
ARKives30 Mar 2024
City Expansion: Driving Transit Innovation and Last-Mile Connectivity Published: 30 March, 2024 6 mins(s) read Tags: #Geospatial #GIS #Technology Series: Mobility and Urban Dynamics It’s been a...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans23 Mar 2024
The problem of AI ethics In the late 1990s, the UK Post Office deployed a new point-of-sale computer system, built for it by Fujitsu.
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