The Two Lives of a City
Every city inherits an identity from its history, but it also develops another through the people who arrive later. Its greatness depends on whether these two identities can grow together without either one being erased.
Thoughts on software engineering, product design, and the digital landscape.
Every city inherits an identity from its history, but it also develops another through the people who arrive later. Its greatness depends on whether these two identities can grow together without either one being erased.
We often worry about artificial intelligence becoming smarter than us, but the real disruption in the workplace might come from a much simpler trait: showing up and doing the work without friction.
What happens when intelligence is no longer scarce and anyone can create anything? This is the economic question we are not asking enough.
AI is becoming geopolitics. Governments want control, builders want progress. Innovation slows when power fears what it can't direct.
WWDC 2026 focused heavily on AI, but the most useful updates were not necessarily the AI features. Alongside a rebuilt Siri and new Apple Intelligence tools, Apple introduced performance improvements, safety enhancements, and platform-wide refinements. While the event showed progress, it also highlighted the need for greater user control, stronger security, and better content authenticity tools.
Software platforms are rebuilding their core structures so that artificial intelligence agents can interact with them as first-class users.
The rise of advanced artificial intelligence is changing how we look at careers, shifting the advantage away from traditional office roles and back toward physical, skilled trades.
A personal reflection on how technology updates shifted from solving human problems to chasing corporate trends, and what we lost along the way.
The AI education market is flooded with cheap courses making impossible promises. This deep dive exposes the flaws of prompt engineering gimmicks and explains why true value lies in human taste, domain expertise, and deep industry knowledge rather than automated shortcuts.
After watching the Google I/O 2026 keynote and checking out the Airbnb Summer Release 2026, I noticed a difference between companies using AI to look modern and those using it to improve their product. Airbnb stayed focused on travel and the actual problems people face. AI is definitely there, but it stays in the background where it belongs. It is a sidekick, not the main character.