Rooms · Fixing my mind
Books, technology, judgment, systems, and ideas worth testing.
Learning is a lifelong project. This room will grow into a collection of books, ideas, arguments, inventions, difficult questions, and the practical judgment accumulated while trying to understand how things work.
Start with my list of favorite books. More pages will be added here over time.
Published essays
The inventors who did the work, and why history tuned them out.
Read the full story →The transformation from farm labor to an industrial economy offers a useful guide to what AI may do to work—and how people can prepare for it.
Read the full story →A $25 Spotbot, a hidden motor failure, and the familiar judgment call every fixer eventually faces: repair it, replace the motor, or walk away.
Read the full story →Future pages