Subjects · chosen by hand

Ways into the book.

Eight recurring interests, each gathering links and ideas from across the commonplace book.

Artificial Intelligence

Machines that think, the work they change, and the futures they make plausible.

Lines kept because prose could not have carried them.

Labour, ambition, careers, craft, and what automation does to all four.

Old questions, useful distinctions, and ways of living with uncertainty.

Tools, infrastructure, software, and the social worlds built around them.

Industry, development, geopolitics, and the changing balance of power.

Markets, development, money, inequality, and incentives in the wild.

Books, attention, authorship, and the pleasures of making sense in public.