Intelligence as a Utility Bill
If cognition is becoming metered infrastructure, what are we using it for?
The danger is not that intelligence becomes cheap. The danger is that cheap intelligence reveals how small our ambitions are.
Opinion · Strategy · Judgement
Accelerated thinking. Unfiltered judgement.
A personal press by Johnny Han. Sharp, first-principles arguments on technology, incentives, and corporate reality. Assisted by machines; driven by taste.
One considered article at a time — on technology, incentives, and corporate reality — plus first access to the Labs instruments. No noise, no spam, no paywall.
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If cognition is becoming metered infrastructure, what are we using it for?
The danger is not that intelligence becomes cheap. The danger is that cheap intelligence reveals how small our ambitions are.
Labs · Built in the open
Interactive instruments that turn a fuzzy feeling into something you can look at. The first is a working view on the gap between loud AI claims and rigorous evidence. A different lens on the numbers everyone quotes.
Where the ideas get tested against real software — a couple live and in use, and an instrument still taking shape.
About
I'm Johnny Han — once an IT consultant at IBM, now a Principal AI Architect. This is my personal press: a place to turn messy strategic thoughts into polished, shareable arguments. I use AI as a production engine; the opinion, framing and final taste are mine.
AI helps structure, draft, and gather research. The legwork is automated; the perspective is not.
Every piece is shaped, edited, and approved by me to ensure the judgement is mine.
Nothing is published unless I would defend the judgement behind it in front of smart, critical people.