- Keeping Score
Money drives our lives. For most people it’s why we work, give away a vast majority of our lives, often to jobs we find soulless and ungratifying. “No free lunch”, as the saying goes. But food literally just grows out of the ground and on… - Messaging Problem
Populism is the only game in town now that politician have eroded the trust for fair and balanced rule of law based policies. The continual erosion of social safety nets, the complete lack of political will to push back against naked profiteering and gouging of… - Ego in Friction
Not sure if it’s an age thing or I’ve just finally found a smidgen of self awareness, beyond just dipping a toe under the surface level. Recently I’ve been trying to interrogate what really drives my decisions, how I’ve come to land on the positions… - Exodus
Robots leave their creators to create their own haven. What happens when society is upturned? - Collective Concern Drives the Union
No fiefs. Nor algorithm. The guild is us. A fundamental gap has been bridged. No longer bits and bytes or even convoluted syntax and algorithms, but plain speech can be fed to LLMs and actions, often quite complex, can be taken and the desired outcome is achieved. So in light of all this, plus the ever encroaching techno-feudalism, I created handshakeunion.nexus
Programmer by day, hobbyist: writer, game developer & political/philosophical armchair ranter by night. Father to two wonderful kids and married to the most amazingly creative woman.
The world is going through a crucible of major change from every side it seems. The purpose of this blog is to allow me to explore and document my ideas and perspective whilst hopefully sharing insight and starting a conversation.
Whilst it may be shouting into the void of the endless maelstrom of the internet, I hope you find some interesting ideas and fresh perspective on current events.
