2020: The Year Everything Changed
A year that began with a mysterious virus in Wuhan ended with the world permanently altered, and the acceleration of trends that will define the next decade
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- career
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Ideas tested in public.
Essays on autonomous agents, systems architecture, technical leadership, and the work of making software dependable.
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Apple M1: ARM Beats x86
Apple is about to ship ARM-based Macs, and if the rumors are right, this will be the most significant architectural shift in personal computing since the move from PowerPC
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The US Election and Social Media's Reckoning
The 2020 US election exposed the fundamental tension between platform scale and platform responsibility, and there are no easy answers
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Tesla Model Y: My Third Tesla
Taking delivery of a Model Y and reflecting on how Tesla went from a curiosity to the default choice for anyone paying attention to the automotive industry
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The World Went Remote Overnight
COVID-19 just forced the largest remote work experiment in human history, and cloud infrastructure is the only reason it is working at all
- cloud
- personal
A Virus in Wuhan: How Technology Responds
Reports of a novel coronavirus are emerging from China, and the tech response is already revealing how the world handles crises differently in 2020
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