Writing
Essays, reflections and stories, with their original publication dates.
Browse series in reading order →18 articles
The Architect's Doubt
A story about doubt, responsibility and the decisions that shape what we build.
Socrates and the Art of the Right Question
Three questions for examining AI output before treating a fluent answer as a sound decision.
Aristotle and the Judgment That Cannot Be Automated
Where practical judgment matters when a tool can perform the routine parts of a job.
Plato's Cave and the Reality We Are Building
How representations shape what we notice, and what they can leave out.
Epictetus and the Control Problem
A way to separate what you can influence from what you cannot control at work.
Heraclitus and the Nature of Change
What a philosophy of change can offer a working life in transition.
Aristotle's Ethics and the Alignment Problem
An essay on the values hidden inside apparently technical AI decisions.
Can Machines Learn Phronesis?
A philosophical question about experience, context and machine judgment.
The Examined Machine
Why examining the purposes of AI matters alongside measuring its performance.
From Athens to Now — The Modern Philosophers Who Carried the Torch
A reading of the thinkers who connect classical questions with modern technology.