From the desk
Long-form thoughts on technology, life, and everything in between
We train our children with gold stars and our AI with thumbs up. The reward systems look similar — but what they produce couldn't be more different. In a world where skills are automatable, the most human thing you have isn't what you know. It's that you earned it the hard way.
Continue reading→Everyone writes about AI making them more productive. Nobody writes about what happens when the work is done and it's only Saturday morning. Turns out, the real gift isn't doing more — it's remembering what you used to do before.
Continue reading→I never planned to work in finance. But looking back, all my interests — history, management games, systems thinking — were pointing me here all along. Then COVID happened, oil went negative, and everything clicked.
Continue reading→After a decade in France, I fell in love with its culture while feeling like an outsider. Now I'm back to bridge two worlds and bring liberté de pensée home.
Continue reading→A decade with AI — from reading textbooks on Lagrange multipliers to understand SVM, to building KyberAI, to vibe coding this website. Each era felt like the pinnacle. Each was just the beginning.
Continue reading→New LLM models keep launching with massive investments, yet they no longer feel magical. Perhaps the stall isn't in the technology, but in how we define 'progress'.
Continue reading→From X to Facebook, DeepSeek is everywhere. Nasdaq and BTC dumps blamed on it. So much FUD and hype. Let's fact-check what this 'magic' really is.
Continue reading→Writing to understand. Sharing to connect.