Don't Mind Rick

Seven years ago, I tweeted: algorithms are opinions, not truth machines, and demand the application of ethics.

Prevention creates an evidence vacuum.

Somewhere in the last decade, leisure became something to optimise.

The hardest period in your career is probably the one you still speak about.

The insight has been around long enough to become furniture.

Intent gets announced.

Staying out of something feels like a safe position.

If your income depends on what you know, sharing it feels like burning your own inventory.

There's a moment in every well-run system where you realise it has no slack.

In any organisation with a culture problem, the polite people are doing more damage than the difficult ones.

Every time software development gets easier, the instinct is to assume there will be fewer developers.

The more complex the system, the more data it produces.

The Swedes have a word for the feeling when everything is calibrated just right.

There's a psychology study where researchers gave participants a fake scar, then secretly removed it before sending them into a social interaction.

Here's a thought experiment that's been breaking philosophers for fifty years.

There's a version of procrastination that looks nothing like procrastination.

The saying is usually deployed as a complaint.