What is Technology? — Letters to a Young Technologist

And since technology is not value neutral, to be a technologist is to be inherently opinionated about how the world ought to be. Each act of creation is a statement about one particular means to an end being the best possible means. As Saffron Huang writes, “[b]ringing something into existence is in fact endorsing that thing itself. As we hurtle al... See more

A technologist makes reason out of the messiness of the world, leverages their understanding to envision a different reality, and builds a pathway to make their vision happen. All three of these endeavors—to try to understand the world, to imagine something different, and to build something that fulfills that vision—are deeply human.

We have a moral responsibility to shape the world with specific, defensible ideas that we believe in. Call it definite optimism, reclaiming agency, or finding your life's work. Building a great business, rallying a network, fostering a community – they all require redirecting collective attention. The technologist's job is not to redirect worship t... See more

PERPETUAL TRANSFORMATION... AND TO WHAT END

The reason I write about technology, is to provide a trail of my thoughts as we work through what it means to be molded by the tools we seek to mold.

We are absolutely massaged over by technology. And the internet, what has taken over more of our perceived reality than the truly experienced physical embod... See more