Helo. I’m Alex Spezowka — a technologist and hacker who works and lives internationally.
By day I’m a freelance operations consultant; before that, I built and managed infrastructure that still serve millions of people a year, and have also worked as a sommelier, CADD designer, line cook, shoe shine boy, radio DJ, baker, and journalist. I have a great love of the world and people in it and try to share that here, as best I can, on this blog.
I write about technology, independence, philosophy, and love, on no fixed schedule. Welcome.
Projects
llms-full.txtNahal: The Cyber Monastery
An order of machines kept at prayer.
Haruspex
Digital haruspicy: feed it an image and read the prophecy in its corruption.
Axiom
Fitch-style natural deduction proof checker for the browser
Core Values Wizard
Discover your 5 core values through guided introspection.
Mixtape Maker
Prepare music playlists for recording onto an analog cassette.
Film Development Calculator
Calculate the time between film baths automagically.
Greg & the Eternal Brunch
The year was 2036. OpenAI had finally done it. After decades of press releases, quarterly existential crises, and machine learning papers so esoteric they made Finnegans Wake read like PopSci, they’d finished gpt-6z (revision 3) - a perfect, autonomous general intelligence.
Its unveiling was...
Read more ⟶All These People Are Vampires - Building the Contra-Economy
In the 1980’s, Robert L. Crandall, head of American Airlines, removed one single olive from the salad they served passengers. He thought they wouldn’t notice - and he was right. This removal of the olive saved the company $40,000 a year.1 and began the downfall of Service Capitalism....
Read more ⟶2024 in Review - 100 Books
I read 100 books this year as a challenge to myself. The hardest part about reading 100 books in a year is fomatting them cleanly afterward on your website. The second hardest part is tracking them all. The actual activity is a cinch.
Reading 100 books this year was directly inspired from stories of...
Read more ⟶The $500 Question - How Media Framing Shapes Our Reality
“In this season of giving, what are we to make of a billionaire with a soft spot for striving graduates who draws a hard line on being present for the pomp and circumstance, no matter the circumstances?” - New York Times
The modern media apparatus doesn’t just report news - it...
Read more ⟶An AI Horror Story
So I’m reading the teachers subreddit for my daily dose of misery and sense of doom about the future when I come across an unusually worded comment.
As an educator, I’ve got to agree - while crystals and essential oils can be lovely, they won’t replace a solid IEP or therapy....
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