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Attack of the Clones: Understanding the AI population boom
Why anthropomorphism is taking root in AI, with a case study on OpenAI's GPTs
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Michael Linares

November 2023

Slow it all down
Recommendations for meditation, journaling, and art.
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Michael Linares
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August 2023

Outlook cloudy: Designing for uncertain times
How weather apps attempt to provide certainty-as-a-service despite uncertainty-as-a-reality
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Michael Linares

June 2023

Objective function, what's your function? How to grok AI and existential risk
It's the optimization, stupid!
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Michael Linares

May 2023

Whose Line Is It Anyway? Human Decentered Design in ChatGPT
What ChatGPT's product design can tell us about its creators, their ideas, and ourselves
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Michael Linares

March 2023

Oops! ... I did it with GAN: Living in Generation AI
Unpacking the magic and pitfalls of generative AI, with a case study on Midjourney
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Michael Linares

August 2022

How to do nothing productive (with tech)
In which I recommend three art projects and a few new ways of seeing.
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Michael Linares

March 2022

Tech debt is eating the world
Web infrastructure begets inequality, especially for tech nonprofits
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Michael Linares

April 2021

Building ethics and equity into software
Wouldst thou like to live ethically?
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Michael

March 2021

Against growth: Building a slower, more thoughtful internet
Unlearning growth-by-default like our lives depend on it
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Michael

February 2021

Frameworks for measuring product inclusion and product equity
A few working frameworks for PMs, execs, small teams, and startups
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Michael
Modular manipulation: Towards radical user choice
Ways to defuse weapons of mass persuasion
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Michael
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