Writing Essays and shorter pieces on AI, economics, and culture
I write to think. Most pieces here are essays — longer than a tweet, shorter than a paper — on the questions that don't fit neatly into my research. New work appears first on my Substack.
Selected essays
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Are you a bit too sceptical of AI?
On why confident dismissals of frontier models tend to age badly — and what a careful version of the sceptical case actually looks like.
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Lowkey judging you for working in finance
A friendly provocation about career choice, talent allocation, and the stories we tell ourselves about impact.
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Why India under-produces its own frontier
On the innovation gap and what changing it would actually take.
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The cities that make you ambitious
A short piece on place, ambition, and why where you live still matters.
Shorter notes
I post quick thoughts on Twitter / X as @wizofecom. Longer reading notes and article commentary live on the canvas.