For the past few years I've been researching how product safety has evolved over time. Earlier this year, my preliminary work on a Digital Product Safety playbook was published. One of the most effective ways to hold industry accountable is to name the tactics used to avoid product
Finishing up reading the titular book ("Attensity") and it reminded me of this beautiful poem: Saint Francis and the Sow By Galway Kinnell The bud stands for all things, even for those things that don’t flower, for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing; though sometimes it
So many goodly citties ransacked and razed; so many nations destroyed and made desolate; so infinite millions of harmelesse people of all sexes, states and ages, massacred, ravaged and put to the sword; and the richest, the fairest and the best part of the world topsiturvied, ruined and defaced for
I'm almost embarrassed to admit this but I have not yet read Infinite Jest. I'm currently listening to the audiobook, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself (2010) by David Lipsky, from his 5 days spent with David Foster Wallace at the very end of
Creating this site to foster discussion around reframing our current fragmented approach to "technology governance" as "digital product safety", based on a body of work done at Internet Safety Labs (https://internetsafetylabs.org) as well as my work during the 2024-25 Harvard Technology & Human
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