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On inheriting a name
My name is Hanh Dang. I am Hanh D. Brown now. The D is what survived.
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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.
personal
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.
personal
A short defense of changing your mind
policy
Transparent Battlefield: The Frozen Front and the Lost Inventory
ai
AI Cost Per Token: Why GPU Hour Is the Wrong Bill
news
Will AI Take My Job? Three Questions That Tell You How Long
news
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."
news
Venture Capital and AI: Sized for Fifteen Winners a Year
aging
The Work AI Cannot Replace: My Mother and Higher-Value Care
policy
AI Agent Governance: Treat the Agent Like an Employee
ai
AI Chip Performance: Why Blackwell Delivers 50x, Not 2x
ai
AI Productivity: Five Percent of Your Job, Leveraged 20x
ai
Code Is No Longer a Moat. The New AI Moats Are Elsewhere.
ai
How AI Chips Work: The Pause Is Where the Work Lives
policy
AI Safety Is Not What They Say. It Is What They Gave Up.
news
AI Hype vs Reality: Four Tells in Every Announcement
ai
AI Orchestration: The Blind Spot Is Not the Model
aging
Abundance and Unrest Hit the Middle of the Labor Market
ai
The Roman Legion Is the Wrong Shape for Your Company
personal
What revision actually is
personal
The other twenty years
ai
What the machine cannot say
ai
The model that knew too much
ai
How i make the images
aging
What my mother did not teach me
personal
The voice i was avoiding