Blog - Fractal Flame

There’s lots of philosophical ink spilled on whether AI conscious or intelligent.

Trying to write, one needs so much confidence in oneself to carry even a sentence.

People seem to forget that we’re in the postmodern era.

I see a lot of people talking about how AI tools will make work more efficient, or expect that using them will make work more efficient.

Resilience engineering has a working definition that I'm fine with adopting.

My employer’s Chief Takes Officer is on a kick about feedback loops so I’m gonna write about them too.

Books are my comfort object.

I’ve not written a lot this year.

Immediate disclaimer: This is a highly speculative post.

It’s time to stop referring to “generative” AI as creative.

Technosolutionism is the idea that one can solve a problem using techne.

The Trump administration, in its 2025 manifestation, is dead set on harming many.

I’ve some mixed feelings about writing on this topic.

Where does data come from and what does it mean?

There are a lot of different names for the state of the American economy today.

There’s a theory of software’s place in political economy that I’ve been considering for a little while now.

I’m presently making my way through Roads: An Anthropology of Infrastructure and Expertise by Penny Harvey and Hannah Knox.

In his book The Logic of Sense, Gilles Deleuze devotes a significant portion of the text to considering the concept of problems.

Earlier this week, my colleague Fred organized a discussion at work about whether incident responders should be considered victims.

Yesterday I recorded a little rant and posted it on Instagram.