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An Open Letter to Sam Altman & the Team at OpenAI
Dear Sam and everyone at OpenAI, I want to say thank you. This is not a polished product review, a carefully calculated business case, or a… →
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Writing at the Speed of Thought
How I turned 45 years of thinking into a 50k-word book in six days A few days ago, I found myself eating a bowl of cereal… →
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The Hunting Party
My first book took six days to write and 51 years to collect. →
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A Hero of Our Time
Non-linear War One night after a long day, I turned on the television and Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe was on. Adam Curtis was talking about Vladislav Surkov,… →
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What Cars Taught Me About Love
Why the things we love are rarely the things that look best from a distance. When I was about six or seven, my favourite uncle, who… →
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Socrates with a Dictaphone
What happens when conversation stops disappearing? I’ve been thinking about what Socrates could have done with a Dictaphone and a PA. He could have sat in… →
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Batman with a Pen
How AI is changing the balance of power between people and institutions The moment I realised I was turning into Batman, but with a pen, was… →
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Five Notes on Human Behaviour
Where to start with a series about control, scarcity, change and the strange ways people affect the environments around them I didn’t really set out to… →
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Social Gravity
This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. What abundance looks… →
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Punctuated Change
This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Why deep psychological… →
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The Ecology of Scarcity
This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. How scarcity teaches… →
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The Parasite and the Host
This article is part of an ongoing series on behavioural psychology, exploring personality, scarcity, social dynamics and the ways our environments shape behaviour. Why narcissistic relationships… →