Thoughts & Comments

Deus Ex Machina

On the myth of AGI

Jun 12 • 

Andy Schwab

October 2024

Weakness is not a Solution

It turns out designing vulnerabilities into our systems makes us more vulnerable

Oct 30, 2024 • 

Andy Schwab

Context Matters

We must transition from assuming things are true to assuming they are false

Oct 20, 2024 • 

Andy Schwab

July 2024

Open Source & Competition

Cooperation is an essential component of efficient markets

Jul 25, 2024 • 

Andy Schwab

Perfectly Fragile

Until we incentivize building resilient systems, we're going to have a bad time

Jul 21, 2024 • 

Andy Schwab

March 2024

Rebuttal to "Why Crypto Just Won't Die"

We're building blockchains for the same reason we composed alphabets

Mar 15, 2024 • 

Andy Schwab

February 2024

Marketing is the Mission

Time to process a bit of grief

Feb 29, 2024 • 

Andy Schwab

August 2023

Leadership Predispositions

And the environments that attract them

Aug 30, 2023 • 

Andy Schwab

April 2023

The Joy of AI Dread

What if the innovator is (perhaps for the first time) the demographic most imperiled by the innovation?

Apr 30, 2023 • 

Andy Schwab

March 2023

Privacy (or not) is a Systems Property

And there is no such thing as enabling privacy as a "feature"

Mar 30, 2023 • 

Andy Schwab

February 2023

Security is a UX Problem

The first step to improve security is to stop blaming the victim

Feb 15, 2023 • 

Andy Schwab

January 2023

The Risk of Enforcing the Status Quo

We suppress new technologies at our peril.

Jan 4, 2023 • 

Andy Schwab