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The Economist’s graphical misstep in reporting the plight of short kings
This summer the website of The Economist Magazine published Height of Romance: The deceptive rise of the “short king”, about the challenges of short men in the cohabitation and marriage…
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Human-centered lessons from 5 decades of people eaters
The same year a human first trod the moon’s surface, Disney built a high-capacity ride system, called the Omnimover, into the Haunted Mansion. This shuttled people through the attraction instead…
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Using data to visualize evolutionary forces
A while back I wrote about how, using game theory simulations, we can conclude that our species evolved to have a bias toward cooperation. That’s heartening news. As I type…
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LLMs are what they eat
Today is the publication day of Cory Doctorow’s latest book. It’s a critique of the commercial internet. In the past, he has written insightfully about the trechery of social media’s…
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Game theory proves cooperation is a successful survival strategy
I’m fascinated by evolutionary biology — the study that examines unexpected ways we have evolved through the millennia. You may recall from high school science that natural selection favors traits…
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My 2025 Super Bowl prediction revisited
Subtitle: The seductiveness of powerful use cases. I’m a terrible futurist. In the mid-90s I proudly made these predictions: Both embarrassingly wrong. And that was just the As! I was…