Senior Director of Product Management, 15+ years in AI (before it was cool), 2 startups founded and 8+ years in corporate America. Writes Read Uncut: free, independent, longform analysis on AI, tech, and politics. Sourced, argued, named. Never vibed.
I disappeared for a while - no new articles, I have a lot to say and a lot to write about but with my full time job and life I really want to focus on getting a project I have been working on for a long time finally out of
North Dakota votes Republican by margins that make the word landslide sound timid, treats "government overreach" roughly the way other states treat arson, and has owned and operated its own bank since 1919, 3 facts that are supposed to cancel each other out and stubbornly refuse to, because
I've had the same conversation a dozen or more times. Someone mentions they're thinking about moving south, or they just did, and sooner or later the pitch arrives: no income tax, lower cost of living, you keep more of what you earn. It comes out like
Ukrainian officers are training American war fighters on a Ukrainian acoustic detection system at an American air base in Saudi Arabia, and the reason they are doing this is humiliating for everyone involved except the Ukrainians. Over $1.3 billion in American hardware (a $300-million AWACS aircraft, a THAAD radar,
Somewhere on the 40th floor of a building you would recognize, a room full of people who could not create an email account without calling someone from IT is making the largest capital allocation decisions in the history of American business. They are the board of directors, the people with
tech
This article explores do layoffs for AI actually help a business in the long run. We analyze 1000s of transcripts and stock filings to look at the data - the answer is depressing.
AI regulation in America is not a missed opportunity but rather exactly what is being optimized for - money. This article explores why and the fundamental differences in how the EU and USA treat their citizens.
Housing
Austin brought rents down 19%. Boston flew a delegation out to learn how, took detailed notes, came home, and did very little. This article explores what can easily be done.
Politics
This article disects what the Republican Party of America actually is - a fundamentalist party that has more in common with the Taliban than Christianity.
Politics
America has long had a grip on Europe especially since the Ukraine war, but that grip is becoming weaker by the day and in large it's down to Ukraine.
social
With states having larger budgets than ever why does everything feel like it is falling apart? This article examines what has shifted and why.
AI
AI gave corporate America a way to gut headcount and get applauded for it. An NBER study found only 2% of execs attributed cuts to actual AI, but 60% cut in anticipation of efficiencies that haven't arrived. The bet was never productivity. It was permanent wage compression with better PR.