Out There

Out There

I was putting myself out there. On my return to San Francisco from a bleak Thanksgiving with my surviving relatives in Illinois, I downloaded Tinder, Bumble, and a few other apps I’d seen Instagram ads for. I resolved to pass judgment on several hundred men per day,...
Persuasive Writing with AI for Non-profits

Persuasive Writing with AI for Non-profits

Writing compelling emails for progressive causes should be easier than writing persuasive corporate emails. This just makes sense, with some obvious exceptions. Most progressive causes align with what the majority of people already want. Flight of the Conchords joked...
How do I structure my AI prompt?

How do I structure my AI prompt?

Large Language Model (LLMs) based AI is growing in popularity at a phenomenal rate. As a result there is a constant ‘creation’ of new users. We are all new users when we begin, after all. I’m writing this in late 2025, and as of now the predominant...
Weapons of Math Destruction

Weapons of Math Destruction

Big Data processes codify the past. They do not invent the future. Doing that requires moral imagination, and that’s something only humans can provide. We have to explicitly embed better values into our algorithms, creating Big Data models that follow our...