You can also read this essay on Substack . Thanks to Michael Dempsey and Aliisa Rosenthal for reading drafts. Disclaimer: In 2021 I invested in Edge Impulse and in 2023 I invested in Ditto , both companies provide infrastructure for edge compute. 1. Computing advances in fractals of concentration and diffusion. A new technology requires concentrated resources; as it develops, it diffuses. But each…
The pastel interior of Henderson Executive Airport is relief from infinite rows of neon slot machines. I need some food before flying back to Palo Alto, and there is a restaurant on the field — Landings. It opens at eight. I wait outside the entrance alongside the other early arrivals and re-check conditions. As the Las Vegas day advances the air thins, making it harder for the Cessna to claw over…
Aviation has a rich literary tradition. It is, after all, intoxicating to be up there. I suppose a lot of pilots cannot help but try to express it in words. There is also the fact that incapacity can turn harmony between man and machine into something unforgiving. Experience is a wonderful teacher, but it gives the test first and the lesson afterwards. So pilots through the generations take the…