We are told, constantly, that our data is “secure.” Encrypted.Protected.Safeguarded by policy, compliance, and best practices. This is a comforting story. It is also a
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The Switch I Never Turned Off I was watching Hawkeye’s “Nightmare” episode of MASH the other night, and it stirred up something familiar. Not just
The First Time I Heard Gary Vee, He Was Right I first heard Gary Vaynerchuk speak when I was in real estate. He was touring.Talking
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For Hire
An Open Offer to OpenAI: Hire the Work You’re Already Using I am not writing this as a complaint. I am writing it as a
Modesty, Misplaced Anger, and the Strange Urge to Police the World An essay on how modesty becomes corrupted when it turns outward—how conviction becomes control,
Shalom. As-salaam alaikum. Peace be unto you. This is an article about how the people who use those greetings have been at war for over
Let’s Start With What Everyone Agrees On Mark Cuban changed the healthcare conversation in the United States in a way very few people ever manage
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If you’ve been following the River Refugium Project, the consulting work growing out of it, or the wide scatter of ideas that land on Blue
What Was Quietly Sold Off Before It Came Gen X grew up inside systems that worked. They weren’t glamorous.They weren’t innovative in the modern sense.
Disclaimer: This piece is political opinion. Capital‑O Opinion. It is a thought experiment about culture, power, and voter behavior—not an endorsement, not a campaign proposal,
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Why not treat AI as a utility?
What If Data Centers and LLMs Actually Served Everyone? There’s a strange irony in the way the future is unfolding. We’ve built the largest knowledge
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Scarcity Is a Lie. Now What?
“We already have the tools to take care of everyone; we just haven’t redesigned our systems—or our thinking—to match that reality.” That sentence is not
A Calendar-Recognized Year-End Communication This is not, strictly speaking, our New Year. Our year turns at the winter solstice, when the light stops losing ground
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Peut-être préféreriez-vous la guillotine?
History is remarkably consistent about one thing. When inequality grows too large—when wealth, power, and opportunity concentrate beyond the system’s ability to justify itself—societies do
This is an imagined monologue. I’m borrowing a modern habit—comedians and entertainers sitting on talk shows, reminiscing about the greats, circling their influences with equal
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Open Source the Future: Why Food, Water, and Healthcare Knowledge Must Belong to Everyone
Open the Knowledge or Admit the System Is a Lie Capitalism, regulated trade, markets—fine.I’m not here to argue against exchange or incentive. Capitalism is very
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Seasonal Amnesia
This piece is offered in honor of the long side of the winter solstice. We have crossed the dark hinge of the year and come
On the Winter Solstice The winter solstice is not loud.It does not announce itself with fireworks or proclamations. It arrives quietly, almost unnoticed, marked not
Supercritical: The Frontier State of Matter We’re Ignoring — and Why It Might Be the Real Science of Alchemy There’s a strange truth running quietly
Why Are WE Punching The Wrong Enemy There’s a strange irony in modern creative culture:people will use every labor-saving tool in existence — except the