Archive
Writing.
Essays on legal AI, ML systems, and the work in between.
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Where Do Junior Lawyers Come From Now?
The legal apprenticeship that produced every lawyer alive is breaking, and not in some far-off future. A note from inside the room where it's being dismantled.
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Two Sides of the Same Damaged Coin
On Don Draper, Tony Soprano, and why we keep returning to the antiheroes television was last willing to leave unresolved.
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On Staying Honest About AI
An attempt to write about AI from inside the deployments, without evangelism, without refusal, and without the comforts of pretending you aren't already participating.
Elsewhere
Selected work cross-published on The Olive Branch Review.
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It's Turtles All the Way to Phillip
Beyond the edge of the universe, an infinite stack of turtles. At the bottom is Phillip, who has decided he has had enough of being unseen.
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This is the Way Democracy Ends
Not with a bang but a whimper. On the Supreme Court's presidential immunity ruling and the social contract it quietly broke.
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The Creature in the Corner
Joel Portnoy sits at his kitchen table and considers, again, whether he needs to be committed. The figure in the corner of his eye has been there for over a week.