Author's Note: Timeliness is rarely the forte of this blog. This post, begun in late 2025, is about work I conducted at my previous employer, Markaaz. Although I have since left Markaaz, I still wanted to share about a few of the interesting projects I worked on during my time there. Stay tuned for future posts related to my current professional work.

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Over the last few weeks, I’ve listened to several conference panels where experts discussed how the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact, inter alia, banking, national defense, and intelligence gathering. And there’s been a consistent theme across every one of these panels: someone from the audience will ask a question about how the potential downsides of AI adoption can be mitigated, and one of the experts will reply, “Well, obviously we have to ensure that any AI decision-making keeps humans in the loop” (HITL), while the other experts solemnly nod along in agreement.

The video game industry has managed to sit out the Great Decoupling until now, but moving forward is likely to find itself in the crosshairs.  Regulators in both China and the US are taking a …

The Unprecedentedness of Trump 2.0 We are 5 weeks into Donald Trump’s second presidency, and four months since he won the 2024 election. In foreign policy, the effects have already felt catac…

There is a well-established pattern from the first Trump presidency that the world temporarily forgot during the Biden years and is now rediscovering. Trump will pick up provocative ideas from people in his orbit, will repeat them out loud, people will freak out, causing Trump to double down, and then the commenting classes will write articles saying, "Well, you know, actually the idea isn't that dumb." But the idea does indeed remain fundamentally unsound.