Building technology with craft

Hi, I’m Stuart, and welcome. I’m a developer with an extra: a background in the cognitive and social sciences. I love to create products and solutions that make people’s everyday lives better. But more than that, I treat every application I create as a performance, a demonstration of skill and craft. So please feel free to read on, browse, or contact me to find out more.


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Micro-management by proxy: reflections on generative AI in the workplace

This article describes how generative artificial intelligence tends to break apart teams, driving a wedge into the deep asymmetry between generating information and using it. The result can be stressful for employees, but just as destructive on managers' strategy and vision.

Back to the farm: technology and the agricultural revolution

Is artificial intelligence part of a new industrial revolution? Read this article for a different perspective; that a better analogy was the earlier agricultural revolution, a period of enclosure and consolidation of property and wealth into the hands the few, rather than a dynamic of modernization and innovation.