In 2009, Palm unveiled webOS — software so good that Steve Jobs allegedly panicked. Multi-tasking, card-based navigation, developer-friendly APIs, seamless notifications. By most accounts it was …
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We’ve Always Been Building Paperclip Machines
My former colleague Mark House wrote something this week that's been rattling around in my head. He references the Universal Paperclips game — a browser game where an AI tasked with making paperclips …
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The Malthusian Effect of AI
Malthus was wrong. He predicted that population growth would outpace food production, leading to inevitable societal collapse. Technology proved him spectacularly wrong — agricultural productivity …
The Quiet Surrender
Putt's Law states that technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. Its corollary is unsettling: …
What Wall Street English Taught Me About AI in Education
I have spent this series writing about AI in education as an outside observer — analysing trends, citing research, drawing conclusions. But I am not an outside observer. I run product at Wall Street …
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The Study Nobody in EdTech Is Quoting
There’s a study that should be everywhere in education conversations. It isn’t. Published in Scientific Reports — Nature’s peer-reviewed journal — in 2025, a randomised controlled …
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