Jake LaCaze

In the autobiography The Life of Frederick Douglass, the author takes an interesting view on slavery when he argues that when otherwise good people become slaveowners, they can’t help becoming monsters. Douglass takes a compassionate view of the villains. It’s not always that bad people become slaveowners–but

All too often, we contemplate how we want to succeed. What would you do if you knew you were destined to succeed? Go do that. So the wisdom goes. But sometimes it pays to look at the other end of the spectrum. What if your venture is doomed to fail?

Why should we create in the age of AI? How can we compete? This post from LMNT puts a different perspective on things: I take a little comfort in knowing that it will be impossible for “AI” tools—here on out—to differentiate between human-made and machine-generated content, thereby inevitably

Today’s target for artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be artificial general intelligence (AGI), a technology that is competent in many areas, like humans. AI is most often highly-specialized, focusing on one area with a narrow set of tasks. This sort of AI is best-suited for specialized audiences needing specialized

Writing is easy. All you do is string together a bunch of words. Or so some would have you think. Never mind the fact that so many of us are terrible at saying what we mean. Writing is much harder than some give credit. Because writing is more than words.

These days, people are worried about AI taking their jobs. And who can blame them, with all the stories circulating about AI’s great accomplishments. (P.S. If you’re looking for a counterweight to the hype, read Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust by Gary Marcus and

Introverts make up at least one-third of the population—maybe as high as one-half—yet in so many ways the world feels as if it’s made only for extroverts. How can it be that our social systems benefit one type of person while alienating the other? Pop culture often

As long as there are people, there will be questions about the human condition. How are people doing? What are their greatest struggles and fears and joys? And what does it mean to be a real human being at any point in time? Odds are good I won’t make

I’ve been rethinking my relationship with technology since I started reading Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport. After mentioning this book is usually when a blogger tells his audience he’s deleted his social media accounts and can now be reached only by smoke signal. But this is not that