Light Patterns: Reclaiming YouTube With Self-Hosted AI
How I replaced YouTube's addictive feed with a self-hosted, AI-curated system that blocks by default, restores on purpose, and reflects after.
Blog
Essays on privacy, surveillance capitalism, AI ethics, and the metacrisis. No comments, no likes, no algorithmic distribution. Just writing.
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance (1841)
Googlers Can Save The World
An open letter published during my last week at Google. Outlines how Google profiteers from the polycrisis and how Googlers have a responsibility to reorient the company.
My Introduction To Systems Change
Transcript of a presentation to the SF Climate Action Club. Covers Jevons' Paradox, the history of the climate movement, incentives, externalities, multi-polar traps, and the search for a third attractor.