Totally Human

I can't believe it — I forgot a week! But here we are. "Here" for me means San Francisco, though Yana and I don't feel very San Franciscan. We didn't realize, when we first arrived in December of 2019, that there were only

The medical world has figured out some reasonably solid ways of making transplant algorithms ethical. And my central claim in the academic book is that we can learn from this experience: Some of the practices useful to transplant surgeons might also be valuable in HR departments, or courtrooms, or ... well,

I sure as hell don't. Neither does anyone else I know. (We might want to be with other people more, but not like that.) Over next few weeks, I'm wrapping up an academic book about the ethical choices that hide inside of high-stakes software, and how

When the question is posed like that, it seems like the kind of thing that ought to have a clean answer. A binary, that could be encoded as  zero or one in a database. The question often comes from concerned friends or family, who might have noticed that I’ve

Our power to tell stories about each other is one of the most important tools we have for understanding, connection, and joy. People tell stories to show who they are, to understand others, to establish relationships. Enjoying a good story is part of what makes us human. When we first