Irvin Owens JrThe Future May Indeed Belong to The ArtistsMuch ink has been spilled recently with breathless coverage of how LLMs specifically are going to eliminate the administrative class…9 min read·Mar 27, 2024----
Irvin Owens JrRegulating “Big Tech” as a Common CarrierIt is becoming apparent that the legislators who are considering the best way to regulate the tech industry are thinking about things in a…3 min read·Dec 11, 2021----
Irvin Owens JrWho Controls Technology?“The user of the technology should always feel in control.”3 min read·Sep 21, 2021----
Irvin Owens JrExtraneous Bits From The Last American 2 (Working Title)To my knowledge, writing elegantly is an attempt to excise, yet recognize the prudence in colloquialisms such as, “kill your darlings”…5 min read·Apr 5, 2021----
Irvin Owens JrOn Digital TaxesThe first I heard of a digital tax was France’s uninspired law, which seems to be hastily crafted and appears to be a money grab to keep…4 min read·Jun 21, 2020----
Irvin Owens JrThe Flaw in Capitalist Democracy That Justice Thomas is ExposingIn Citizen’s United vs the FEC, Justice Thomas exposes a bit of his worldview. It’s a worldview that has come in starker relief over the…6 min read·Jun 6, 2020----
Irvin Owens JrYou Are Inadvertently Filtering Out Underrepresented CandidatesI’ve had this post brewing over the course of a year at this point. This is a rant and it won’t be exactly what I want to say. I’ll…9 min read·Jul 13, 2019----
Irvin Owens JrinFitbit Tech BlogWhat is Bitgatt and why do we need it?At Fitbit we utilize Bluetooth Low Energy, commonly known as BLE, for particularly heavy data transfers which are more complex than the…9 min read·Jun 4, 2019----
Irvin Owens JrApple is Gearing up to Launch a Social Network * again *Some time ago, Apple launched a poor attempt at a social network called Ping. You might not remember it, it was well executed, but it…5 min read·Dec 4, 2018----
Irvin Owens JrLiving and Working in BrotopiaThe views presented here are entirely my own and are not necessarily the views of my current, nor former employers12 min read·Apr 28, 2018--1--1