Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans23 Nov 2025
AI, networks and Mechanical Turks Any consumer internet system with critical mass becomes, in part, a Mechanical Turk. It looks at what the users do and draws conclusions from that.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty9 Nov 2025
There’s a strange kind of peace that comes from admitting you don’t know who you are. Not in the adolescent, identity-crisis way—but in the calm, adult sense of realising that not knowing is...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans25 May 2025
GenAI’s adoption puzzle This chart is very ‘glass half-empty or half-full?’, and it’s a puzzle. You could say that this is amazingly fast adoption, and much faster than PCs, the web or smartphones.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty11 May 2025
The other afternoon, as I was having coffee and trying to focus on a very overdue deadline, my brain decided it was the perfect moment to remind me of this random shopkeeper from my childhood.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty4 May 2025
There are days that vanish like socks in a washing machine. You know you had them—you vaguely remember wearing them—but when you go looking, they’re just… gone.
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty20 Apr 2025
When I was ten, I was going to be a cricketer. Or a pilot. Or a scientist. Or, in a particularly bold moment, a cricketer-scientist who flew planes on the weekends and solved global warming in his...
The Sunday Wisdomby Abhishek Chakraborty6 Apr 2025
When I was in Sri Lanka recently, I met a girl who’d been travelling for years. Like, plural. Her passport looked like a Jackson Pollock painting of visa stamps.
Coding Horrorby Jeff Atwood20 Mar 2025
The following is drawn from a speech I delivered today at Cooper Union’s Great Hall in New York City, where I joined Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman to discuss the future of the American...
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans14 Mar 2025
What kind of disruption? I made this slide for a presentation I’m giving next week, but I think it’s worth picking up and talking about in its own right.
Essays - Benedict Evansby Benedict Evans14 Mar 2025
Apple innovation and execution People have been claiming that Apple has forgotten how to innovate since the early 1980s, or longer - it’s a standing joke in talking about the company.
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.
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