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I’m an executive-level code monkey with a penchant for big questions; from AI and tech culture to philosophy, politics, knitting, and beyond. Nothing here is boilerplate. You’ll find honest takes, real projects, and the kind of thinking that doesn’t wink at the trends but asks why they matter.
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The End of Code Scarcity: Why AI’s Real Value is the Power to be Wrong.
How does coding change when coding is cheap, but getting it wrong isn’t.
Alexithymia and Lucid Feeling
Butterfly feet Warm Fuzzies In first grade, our class took a field trip to the local health center to learn about feelings. They called them “warm fuzzies” and “cold pricklies.” The other kids seemed to know exactly what the teacher meant. They talked about love, jealousy, fear, anger. They had words for everything. I didn’t.…
Your Execs Are Going to Kill Your AI Strategy
Not your engineers.Not the models.Not the tooling. Your executives. If your leadership team still runs the company through slide decks, your AI initiative is already compromised. AI does not thrive in PowerPoint. Work becomes about presentability: One Company, Two Realities Every company has two operating systems: Finance works inside Xero models and reconciliations.Sales lives in Salesforce pipelines and probabilities.Engineering lives…
Quiet Mind: Aphantasia, Anendophasia, and What Do You Mean You Hear Voices?
Turns out my brain’s a minimalist; while others visualize, I just see a blank canvas—great for art, terrible for teleporting!
Trump Protects Protesters?
A recent headline said that Trump was ready to send in the military to protect peaceful protestors after 8 were killed last week. Oh… Trump is ready to protect Iranian protesters challenging Iran’s government, while federal forces continue to brutalize American citizens protesting on American soil. Got it. That’s much more on brand. People on the left…
Happy Halloween
A belated Happy Halloween, a blessed Samhain, and goofy gaurd themed kickoff to the autumnial spece season.
Reading Sontag: A Note from Inside the Camp
a.k.a. Camp as Queer Spellcraft 1. Susan Sontag Is Camp Clueless The 2019 Met Gala’s theme was “Camp: Notes on Fashion.” Camp is hard to define. The Met Gala started, like most people, with Susan Sontag’s 1964 Notes on Camp as the definitive guide. But when it comes to Camp, Ms. Sontag doesn’t seem to know her.…
Sustainable Media Manifesto
The Internet we were promised is not the one we ended up with. Instead of being the long tail out of Mass Media monoculture, we ended up with a surveillance economy where bots and algorithms compel our clicks and engagement in return for “free” content. The race for engagement has pushed humanity down a dark…
Bad Government – What Can You Do?
Rules are Good, But What About Abuse? After reading Republicans Are Not Hypocrites, my uncle asked me: The Good News The good news is that our founding fathers have already addressed these issues. Our laws and governments are living structures, built to evolve and be amended. We can pick our own representation, people who should…
Is Trump Playing for China?
Is our Military Strategy Pro-China vs Pro-America? This is the question Mitch McConnell asked U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in a congressional committee meeting on May 20, 2025. Who does Hegseth want to win: Ukraine or Russia? Hegseth didn’t offer an answer; he felt any victor was acceptable as long as it led to a…
What I Learned by Developing a Top Alexa Skill.
Top 1% of Skills There are over 160,000 Alexa skills available worldwide. Amazon does not publish rankings or engagement scores, but reviews are visible on the site. Voicebot estimates that less than 1% of skills receive more than 100 ratings. My Skill Tarot Reader is a game / educational tool. Users can have their Alexa explain specific tarot…
Apple Can Save AI
Manifesto for AI Privacy in a Surveillance Economy Long ago, tech companies and users lived in harmony. Everything changed when Advertising became the main business model. Tech companies mastered the power of algorithms and AI to exploit their users. They sold them to advertisers. They mined and exploited their behaviors. They created intentionally addictive products.…
Generative AI as APIs
Let the computers talk amongst themselves Pixar’s “Up” gave us Doug, who answered the age-old question of what dogs would say to us if they could talk. It turns out, dogs have nothing to say that we already didn’t know. In 2023, Large Language Models (LLM), such as ChatGPT, gave computers the ability to mimic…
No One Wants To Talk To Your Chatbot
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to talk about this thing called chat. Electric word, “chatbot”. It means automation of human interactions, and that’s a mighty cost-effective thing. But I am here to tell you, no one wants to talk to your chatbot. So before you call up your programmers, and ask them about ChatGPT.…
Comparing Different LLM Models For Data Extraction
A lot of human and computer processing time is spent getting data from one format to another. Many processes defy automation because they run on a long tail of unstructured data, human text, and documents designed for printing. The explosion of AI and large language models (LLMs) opens the door to fully automated data extraction…
Burns Night
Happy Burn’s night! Celebrated this year with friends, a lot of haggis, toasts, cheers; and all the things you can make with scotch and butter.
Apple Vision Pro Experience
I have seen the future. Spatial computing is almost here. It felt like when I tried my first e-paper reader in 2007. You could see the potential, but you couldn’t miss the warts. The massive difference is that my first e-paper reader was a wild bet from a small company, and this is being backed…
Apple Vision Pro Questions
From desktop, to clamshell laptop, to tablet/phone handheld; Apple is betting they can change, or at least, extend the form factor of personal computing again. Questions I have: How many monitors? Vision Pro has the ability to act as a 4K monitor for an Apple computer. It seems reasonable that it will use AirPlay2, which…
The Future is Fluid — It always Has Been
How do you tell them apart? Identity Is Based on How Things Interact All things have properties; however, they are not innate to things. Rather, properties are how an item relates to the rest of the universe. An item is dark because of how it interacts with light. A thing is heavy because of how…
Autism, Approval, and Impostor Syndrome
Hans the Mathematical Horse In turn of the 1900s a German horse named Hans became famous for solving mathmatical problems. People could test his skills verbally or in writing. Hans could add, subtract, multiply, tell you what day of the week so many days in the future would be, all sorts of savant feats. In 1904, a…
Let’s Make a Musical
New game: let’s make a jukebox musical. Rules: Pick any of your music libraries, as long as you can play all of YOUR music on shuffle. (No playlists. No channels. Live the shame of the music you own!) You can skip any music without words for free. You get 10 skips. This is your new…
Do Talk Politics and Religion
One of the first thing every American learns is that we don’t discuss religion or politics in polite company. We don’t talk about them at the dinner table. We don’t discuss them at family gatherings. This was a HUGE mistake. Instead of being polite, America has forgotten how to be politely disagree. We have forgotten…
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