Essays

Here's a collection of my long form writings, more in-depth and substantial than my usual blog posts.

No Acoustic Guitars in Silicon Valley

An essay about AI, the hunt for the Next Big Thing, and the way Silicon Valley lost its pragmatism. It is an exploration of how and why tech types get so excited for mediocre or sometimes outright useless technologies.

An American Balder

An essay about American politics focusing on Donald J Trump and his mythic paralell in the old Norse god Balder, who was the best of the Aesir, most famous for the story of his death.