The Journal
Essays
Long-form writing on AI, philosophy, psychology, and systems thinking.
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Data Lineage as Ethical Infrastructure
End-to-end data lineage tracking revealed that 31% of data used in customer-facing decisions had undocumented transformations. Lineage is a moral obligation when data affects people.
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Pragmatism as Engineering Philosophy: James and Dewey
American pragmatism holds that truth is what works and inquiry transforms problems into solutions. 72% of engineers already decide based on what works. Pragmatism deserves explicit adoption.
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The Ethics of Expertise: When You Know More Than Your Stakeholder
When engineers know more than stakeholders about technical risks, moral obligations arise. 78% of engineering decisions involve information asymmetry. The expert bears the communication burden.
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Sartre’s Bad Faith and The Algorithm Decided
Saying 'the algorithm decided' is bad faith. Every algorithm encodes human choices, and delegation does not eliminate moral responsibility.
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The AI Ethics Career Path Does Not Exist Yet
Analysis of 87 AI ethics job postings found 72% required technical skills the role never uses, while only 19% mentioned process design, the skill that matters most.
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Emotional AI and the Boundary of Machine Perception
Emotion detection accuracy ranged from 62-78% for basic emotions and 31-45% for complex states across 3 systems. Classifying surface patterns is not perceiving emotions.
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The Stoic Programmer: Marcus Aurelius on Technical Leadership
Marcus Aurelius governed 70 million people during plague and war. His Stoic principles map directly to engineering leadership: focus on what you control, judge actions not outcomes, serve those you lead.
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Data Lineage as Ethical Infrastructure
End-to-end data lineage tracking revealed that 31% of data used in customer-facing decisions had undocumented transformations. Lineage is a moral obligation when data affects people.
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Christian Universalism and the Ethics of Open Source
Christian universalism asserts that grace extends to all. Open source asserts that code should be available to all. Both face the same challenge: sustainability requires shared obligation, not individual sacrifice.
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The Absurdity of Optimizing Deprecated Systems
The average enterprise system lives 6.2 years before deprecation. Camus's absurdism reveals that meaning in engineering comes not from permanence but from the quality of the work itself.