Front Row Seat For a Revolution

AI and the Pace of Change Scambling Your Brain? Wimp!

Be glad you weren't around in the early 1800s

Sep 17 • 

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August 2025

AI From 1986, Reading Minds...Badly

But you have Mindreader to thank for autocomplete screwing up your texts

Aug 18 • 

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June 2025

Data Center In a Beer Can?

My intersection with the long, weird journey of quantum computing

Jun 12 • 

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May 2025

Pucking Around With Sun's CEO

Scott McNealy almost bought Apple in 1996. I learned a lot about him by playing on his line in a hockey game.

May 19 • 

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April 2025

Trade Wars and the Law of Most Bests

What a British economist knew about Trump's tariffs 200 years ago

Apr 11 • 

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March 2025

The US and Russia Could Have Been Real Friends

The story a tiny pin tells of the difference between 1987 and 2025

Mar 20 • 

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The Long Road to Robot Butt Washers

Or, my intersection with the story of the smart toilet category

Mar 12 • 

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February 2025

OK Go, YouTube and the Adjacent Possible

How these four guys created the category of "video-stunt rock band"

Feb 22 • 

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January 2025

DeepSeek, Soviet Software, and Human Nature

Perhaps a different explanation of why this happened, and what to take away from it

Jan 31 • 

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Baring It All for Linux

Did you know about the giant sauna in the basement of the Finnish Embassy?

Jan 17 • 

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The Innocence of Early Twitter

The strange tale of a company that didn't know what it was

Jan 3 • 

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December 2024