This is the personal home page of software executive Colin Black.
Content & Links
- What I'm doing NOW
- Thoughts on AI
- Blog
- Latest post Jacob Coxon on the July hacks performed by AI11 Sep 2026 — #ai
- Posts on #ai, #business, #engineering, #philosophy
- My Music
- Recommendations for visiting Taiwan, Las Vegas, Portland
- My software consultancy PNDLM
- On social LinkedIn, Instagram
About
Welcome to my "home page" (as we used to call them...), on the world-wide-web at various addresses since ~1994. I've been tinkering with software and the web since those early days, and ended up building a career on it, culminating with the 2011 founding of software consultancy ☵☲ PNDLM.
But now, some 30 years into this career, the rapid changes in artificial intelligence have caused me to re-consider my life's course. Metaphorical question marks loom, about my future, about all of ours. As I figure out what I can do to contribute to the safe landing of humanity, I will be using this site to track news, ideas, and general discourse.
In more normal times, I have long been interested in people & their motivations; philosophy & ethics; design & aesthetic; communication; music & art, and how the values of these disciplines can be applied to the production of software (or vice versa) to produce better outcomes for people.