Writing · Opinion & field notes
Notes on putting AI to work.
Essays and working notes for researchers, founders, and anyone trying to decide where AI actually fits.
2026
Keeping the map true
Topologies got a new lens, guided stories, country pages and a monthly data refresh. The refresh also showed how many small ways an atlas can be wrong.
No human read this first: building a magazine that runs itself
Every morning, small, old AI models invent an object, review it, censor it, read it aloud and argue about it on a podcast — and nobody checks. What running an AI system with no human in the loop taught me about where the real work is.
How the World Is Wired: building Topologies
Why I built an interactive atlas of global infrastructure across 20 lenses — and what mapping submarine cables, chip fabs, and power grids taught me about how fragile (and concentrated) the modern world really is.
Building an 18-class idle RPG by directing AI agents
I tried to find the ceiling of what you can build by directing AI agents instead of typing the code — and got a genuinely deep browser RPG. The lesson was about architecture, not model smarts.
2023
Don’t be fooled by AI doctors
AI doctors are coming. Some will be careful and certified; others will be sales funnels and snake oil. Here’s the part that worries me.
The ethics of AI: how do we overcome the bias?
Garbage in, garbage out. How AI inherits our oldest prejudices — and four honest ways we could do better.
The rise of deepfakes, and the challenge of truth
Seeing used to be believing. Deepfakes broke that — and the fix has as much to do with us as with the technology.
You’re wrong — AI will take your job. Eventually.
Everyone insists AI will take someone else’s job, never their own. I think we’re all a little wrong — and that’s mostly fine.
A new podcast: What The Iffing If?
A new show with my friend Janne Eskola, poking at the alternative futures of society, technology, and basically anything.
Nothing in that corner yet — try another thread.