Observations from altitude — on AI, technology, and getting things done.
I'm Only Data
Schoolhouse Rock taught a generation how a bill becomes a law. Nobody ever made that cartoon for data. So the data tells this one, from Brownsville to the White House and back into the box.
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The Gray Twilight
Universities didn't just hand their data to vendors. They handed over the work itself, and the expertise walked out with it. Roosevelt's poor spirits didn't lose. They never entered.
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The Ampersand
We trained a generation to speak the language of machines. The machines learned the language of people. The bridge people are about to inherit the building.
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Noise as News
Six-week release cycles. Decimal points doing heavy narrative work. The most important shift in AI has already happened — and it has nothing to do with which lab is two points ahead this week.
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The Markdown Rebellion
The ERP ran on COBOL-adjacent logic written before the internet. The replacement runs on a folder of text files. A hero's journey through the death of the ERP and the birth of the intelligent institution.
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Service as Software
The 25-year SaaS toll booth is ending. Humans author intent, agents deliver outcomes, and the invoice follows the work. One senior engineer, one day, 18 agents, 67 PRs — POC to production.
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Higher Ground
Anthropic built a model too dangerous to release and gave it to forty defenders. Your incident response playbook was written for human-speed attackers. That world just ended.
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Building /today
How a morning briefing script built with Claude evolved from a calendar fetch into something that thinks about my day before I do.
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The Future Is the New Now
An army brat who never went to college is about to tell the accreditors how AI changes everything they audit.
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The Unfinished
42 million Americans started college and never finished. The system forgot them. We're building the thing that remembers.
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From Gutenberg to GPT
The printing press gave us access. AI gives us capability. That's not the same revolution — and the difference should keep you up at night.
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The Amplifier
AI is the most powerful amplifier ever built. It doesn't care what signal you feed it. That's your job.
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The Ikigai Interview
I sat down with an AI and asked it what it thinks its purpose is. The answer landed closer to truth than most humans on stage.
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Bone Dry
Colorado's snowpack is at historic lows. Denver is building data centers that drink 805,000 gallons a day. The future of AI isn't bigger — it's local.
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The Nod
I translated AI into the language of the Sacred Heart. When the sisters nodded, I knew it landed. Empathetic listening is the killer app.
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The Hidden Language
The BLS has 1,016 job codes. AI is making them obsolete. But universities already speak the language that comes next — they just don't know it yet.
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The Three Laws
In 2010, Henry King proposed three laws of equivalence. In 2026, AI is proving every one of them right.
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The 911 Doctrine
Porsche refined the 911 for sixty years. Higher ed named its biggest platform after a blackboard. One approach survives.
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The Word Processor Moment
AI in higher education isn't a calculator replacing a slide rule. It's a word processor replacing a typewriter — and that changes everything.
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Culture Eats Process
Why your methodology doesn't matter until you fix what's underneath. Data is the great equalizer.
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How AI amplifies what you already know. From $250/month to $2.50 — a weekend with Claude Code.
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Why We're Here
AI isn't coming. It's here. And most people are still waiting for permission to use it. The mission behind the mountain.
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