Reflecting

On being successful

Let’s not spoil our lives by using the US-centric definition of success. We need to keep in mind what makes us European.

Q1 2025 quarterly reflection

I’ve been doing a lot of code creation with AI this quarter, in a sort of structured vibe-coding way. I love it!

Q4 2024 quarterly reflection

Thoughts about my personal progress during the last quarter, and things I want to do this quarter.

Q3 2024 quarterly reflection

Thoughts about my personal progress, goals and changes I want to make

Update, memory

Musings on note books and a failed experiment using ChatGPT to record stuff

Learning by writing essays

Why writing essays is a great way to study and learn

Thinking about coconuts

Why are coconuts so big? Why do they have water in them? Are they a nut or a fruit? What is the white stuff for? Did dinosaurs eat coconuts?

On misremembering and AI hallucinations

Does generative AI really understand things? I used to think not, now I’m not so sure

Self-prompting — leveraging your mental cockney builder

We use prompting techniques with AI. We can also use them on ourselves

The WEIRD bias in generative AI responses

“The responses from generative AI depend on their training data. That data is biased, so the responses are biased.”

We need to talk about your information diet

In this essay I look at how we have been programmed by evolution to enjoy cute kitten pictures on Instagram and dumb rage-bait videos on Twitter. We are making ourselves…

Gods of the visual essay

Here I list some of the people that I think write the most inspiring visual essays

Giordano Bruno and Renaissance Magic

Giordano Bruno is a fascinating character from history. I did a talk about him.

How I finally got the habit of productive note taking

For many years I tried to get the habit of regular note taking, but it was only once I started to write research notes for clients that I understood how to do it properly.

AI is coming for your job

How to survive the coming AI job apocalypse

The Moral Machine - Could AI Outshine Us in Ethical Decision-Making?

Philosophers have been debating about ethics since philosophy began, surely they can provide a set of rules for AI to follow? Let’s investigate…

Discussion about Swarm Intelligence

A discussion about Swarm Intelligence — from what it is to terraforming Mars with nano bots.

Why I am an atheist

Working out why you believe the things you do is important