A Systems-Level Clarification on Extrapolation, Human Learning, and Machine Error Preface: Clarifying Earlier Work In prior writing, I introduced the idea that intelligence — human
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the Edge of Humanity
We Are Standing at the Edge of Everything Humanity Has Built Every generation thinks it lives at an important moment. Most are wrong. We are
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The Full Cost of Secrecy
We tend to discuss intellectual property, security, and secrecy as necessary evils—unfortunate but justified costs of innovation. The assumption is simple: guarding ideas is expensive,
On Hair, Evolution, and Why Bad Comparisons Keep Failing I was working on Iron Age material and putting together a visual with Brobot—one of those
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Power Shifts With Tech
Another Lesson from the Story of Copper Technology itself is not what causes disruption and instability. The disruption comes from what happens around the technology.
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A Copper Age Lesson for AI
A Copper Age Lesson for AI I’m sitting here listening to a three-hour history lecture on the Copper Age, tracing the flow of metals and
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The Battery Supply Starts in the Trash
Trash Is a Battery Resource We’re Throwing Away Every time we talk about batteries, the conversation goes the same way. Lithium.Cobalt.Nickel.Rare earths.Supply chains.China.Mines. We argue
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Open-Source Think Tank
An Open-Source Think Tank (By Accident) Someone said it offhand while we were talking business over coffee: “You talk like your company’s an open-source think
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The Product I Wasn’t Allowed to Build
I didn’t start with a pitch deck. I started with a notebook. Six months of notes.Sketches.Measurements.Supplier calls.Market checks.Customer surveys.Prototype failures.One working model on my kitchen
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Data Centers and Water
Stop Boiling Small Towns: Data Center Cooling as a Public Policy Problem Data centers are marketed as “clean industry.” No smokestacks. No slag. No railcars
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A note to Johnstown, PA
I left Indianapolis for a lot of reasons. None of them matter. What matters is why I came to Johnstown, Pennsylvania. A few years ago,
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Power Gap
Opportunity in the Backup Power Economy Here’s a thought experiment. Everyone is building data infrastructure. Big cloud providers.Regional data centers.Hospitals.Municipal networks.Universities.Small companies running their own
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The Singularity Is NOW
For years, the idea of “the singularity” has lived safely in the future. A cliff we were supposedly racing toward. A moment when machines would
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The Privacy Myth in the Age of Total Surveillance
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
Why Systems Exist to Be Spent A Thought Experiment on Structure, Dissipation, and Meaning Editorial Note:This piece is presented as a conceptual thought experiment.It reflects
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The Will Allen Model, Extended
A Five-Acre Regenerative Urban Farm for Maximum Food Production This system is built on the core insight demonstrated by Will Allen: Living soil and living
This article argues that fungal mycelium may function as a living, controllable interface layer between humans and machines—without invasive neural implants—using sealed bioelectrochemical exchange and
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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
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A Different Way to Think About Data Centers
A Local Ownership Model for Johnstown and Cambria County (This could work anywhere and should. Also site selection on the image was for convenience. No
Seeing Chemistry: A Speculative Inquiry into Optical Proxies of Smell A bounded exploration of whether biology could ever “see” chemistry indirectly—without seeing chemistry at all.
Smell as Vision: Olfaction as a Spatial Overlay Animals often behave as if they navigate a layered world humans cannot see.This essay asks how spatial
An Apology to MAGA — and a Call for Help This is an apology. Not a sarcastic one. Not a performative one. A real one.
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Designing for Reasoning, Part II:
An Open Experiment in Deliberate Friction What This Is (and Is Not) This is not a claim that current AI systems are “dangerous.”It is not
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Designing for Reasoning
Part I: Why Friction Matters 1. Observation, Not Accusation Most people do not reason by holding a single, perfectly consistent idea in their heads. When
Every generation leaves something behind. Sometimes it’s buildings or tools. Sometimes it’s damage. But always—whether we mean to or not—we leave lessons. Ways of thinking.
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The Keystone Network
High Speed Rail for Pennsylvania An Incremental, State-Scale High-Speed Rail Framework for the Commonwealth Some ideas feel too big until you shrink them down to
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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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Bright Meadow Group: Observe, Design, Intervene
Making Complex Systems Work Most people learn to work harder, to grind through a problem. Hard work solves immediate problems, but it doesn’t always change
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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
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Constraint Is the Engine
Why Artificial Intelligence Needs Friction to Think Clearly (Hint: We all do.) The most reliable way to improve thinking—human or artificial—is not to make it
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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
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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
On Change, Systems, and Learning How the World Actually Works Everything is about water. Most people hear that and think I’m talking about survival. Drinking
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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
And Why We’ve Been Burying the Future Instead In Star Trek, the replicator is treated like magic. You ask for a thing, and the machine
A proposal to turn blighted malls into rescue colonies, living archives, and a non-invasive research platform for animal intelligence America has a growing inventory of
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