“All models are wrong, some are useful.” George Box
About me
I'm a tech lead for AI in Google Cloud's forward deployed engineering team, serving customers in Asia Pacific. Outside work, I'm:
- A devoted father and avid reader of timeless books
- An amateur singer (mostly in the bathroom)
- Some of my writing is well-researched while others are inchoate ideas
What I’ve been obsessed about recently
My recent interests include examining :
- The impact of applying aristocratic tutoring and classical education, Benjamin Bloom's 2-sigma thesis, how can we create more Einsteins by creating governesses and mentors at scale
- The future of work, applying Jevon's paradox, the Red Queen effect - where on the coal question, Jevons speaks about how market expansion occurs by improving efficiency of the core product
- Concepts like the Red Queen effect ( how when the degree of change has to be relative to other parameters that are changing ) , Kth order thinking, and decision-making under uncertainty (e.g., poker vs. chess, bookmaker's odds)
- The impact of modern UI/UX on society (e.g., vertical scrolling, swipe-based interfaces) how the speed dating UX took over the world
- On Luis Borge’s’ book “On exactitude of science”. There was a fictitious ancient empire that became obsessed with producing ever more accurate maps of its territory until it eventually produced a map with a one to one scale. The entire empire had to be covered with the map of the empire. So many resources were wasted on this ambitious project that the empire collapsed. Finally the map also disintegrated. The only use that was left of the map was the sheltering of the occasional beggar. A one to one map may look like the ultimate representation of reality but tellingly , it’s no longer a useful representation at all.
- Georgism : While I have well-researched opinions on a few topics, I acknowledge that many of my beliefs are educated guesses.
Recent Writing / Work
Vibe Gaps