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personal On inheriting a name My name is Hanh Dang. I am Hanh D. Brown now. The D is what survived.

personal On reading what i cannot finish

personal A short defense of changing your mind

policy Transparent Battlefield: The Frozen Front and the Lost Inventory A frozen front line in Ukraine teaches the future of warfare. Big, slow, heat-emitting platforms lose. The fix is procurement, not budget.

ai AI Cost Per Token: Why GPU Hour Is the Wrong Bill AI bills come in confusing units. The fix is to budget for the product the business sells: tokens. Cost per token is the only metric that compares two quotes.

news Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long

news How to Read AI News: Three Layers, One Sentence Skipped

policy Open Weights AI: Distribution Decides Whose Values Win

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Long reads.

Essays that needed more space. These are the pieces that refused to be shorter without losing something essential.

27 essays

personal · The lead

On inheriting a name

My name is Hanh Dang. I am Hanh D. Brown now. The D is what survived.

On reading what i cannot finish

Fifteen books I have started multiple times. None of them is the book's fault. The architect in me is still reading them.

A short defense of changing your mind

Transparent Battlefield: The Frozen Front and the Lost Inventory

AI Cost Per Token: Why GPU Hour Is the Wrong Bill

Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long

How to Read AI News: Three Layers, One Sentence Skipped

From the notebook

"Open Artificial Intelligence models win distribution because they ship cheaper and modifiable. Distribution decides the global default. Values ride along with the winner."

Venture Capital and AI: Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year

The Work AI Cannot Replace: My Mother and Higher-Value Care

AI Agent Governance: Treat the Agent Like an Employee

AI Chip Performance: Why Blackwell Delivers 50x, Not 2x

AI Productivity: Five Percent of Your Job, Leveraged 20x

Code Is No Longer a Moat. The New AI Moats Are Elsewhere.

How AI Chips Work: The Pause Is Where the Work Lives

AI Safety Is Not What They Say. It Is What They Gave Up.

AI Hype vs Reality: Four Tells in Every Announcement

AI Orchestration: The Blind Spot Is Not the Model

Abundance and Unrest Hit the Middle of the Labor Market

The Roman Legion Is the Wrong Shape for Your Company

What revision actually is

The other twenty years

What the machine cannot say

The model that knew too much

How i make the images

What my mother did not teach me

The voice i was avoiding

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