Jon Holman
Hello. I’m Jon.
I’m Jonathan Holman—most people call me Jon. This is my personal site: essays, notes, projects, and things I’m trying to understand. I write about technology, work, judgment, and whatever else seems worth examining.
Writing
Recent pieces
America Can Still Lose the A.I. Race to Itself
The United States has the talent, capital, and compute to lead in artificial intelligence. What it still needs is a predictable way to govern the technology it is trying to lead.
Terraform and the Lock-In You Actually Got
Terraform provides a portable workflow, not portable cloud resources. What its real lock-in teaches us about state, tools, and deliberate dependency.
About
A little context
I’m a software engineer in Rochester, Minnesota. I’ve spent more than two decades building and operating systems, but this site is broader than a professional profile. My work history lives on the About page.