Ask a product manager about PMF and they will almost certainly rattle off the Sean Ellis test with its 40% threshold. What few realize is that it’s mostly rubbish.

What if the origin of life was not a one-in-a-zillion fluke, but a physical inevitability, solved by Earth’s crust acting as a quantum search engine?

What if private health insurance in Argentina is broken on purpose? ReSalud is a blueprint for a buildable digital insurer: regulated infrastructure with a product surface, an operating model, and unit economics that work!

Consciousness is best understood as a system, not a single entity.

Ralph Wiggum works because it is a degenerate evolutionary search algorithm.

The hard part of machine learning is not serving features but deciding what they are.

A feature in machine learning is only defined once—until you demand it be correct.

It’s not a bad thing finding out that you don’t have all the answers. You start asking the right questions.

Quantum annealing promises quantum advantage, courtesy of quantum tunnelling. But a single, elusive quantity, the spectral gap, determines whether it works. And in almost all interesting cases, that gap is either vanishingly small, unknowable in advance, or both.

A lament for the gentle, and a reckoning with the rain that soaked them.

Imagine a world that is less angry, less anxious, less stressed.

Stress, anger, and anxiety do not only fray lives, they cost the global economy on a colossal scale.