24 Things I’m Grateful For
Of the many things I’m grateful for, let’s start with 1) a garden and 2) a library. (“Those with a garden and a library…
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A Stoic’s Thanksgiving Gratitude
Public expressions of gratitude are de rigueur in America: “I’m grateful for the opportunity to…” is one of the first lines of any public…
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The Middle Class Is Cracking
The middle class is cracking, but if you want a statistic that “proves” this, there isn’t one. The cracking isn’t a statistic, it’s the…
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Knowing, Doing, Fulfillment, Power, Collapse
This sounds like a koan, and it is. Let’s dig in. Knowledge isn’t just knowing–the ultimate manifestation of knowledge is doing–-knowing how to make,…
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Is AI a Catalyst for Growth–or For Collapse?
The current narrative holds that the big problem we need to solve is conjuring up cheap energy to power AI data centers. Fortunately for…
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What We’ve Lost
Amidst the constant drumbeat of tech “progress” and grandiose “solutions,” it’s a useful exercise to ask: what have we lost in the past 40…
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The Problem with Problems: Solutions Real and Fake
To the degree that the primary task in life is resolving problems, there is enduring value in understanding the nature of problems if we…
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Inequality Then and Now: Now It’s Too Late
The theme here is problems are not resolved, they’re papered over with profitable faux fixes. In my previous post, I described how the problem…
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Did the “Solution” Solve the Problem, Or Did It Just Make Somebody Rich?
Here’s our mythology in a nutshell: human needs are limited but human desires are unlimited, and the economy is fueled by smart people motivated…
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The Risk of AI Isn’t Skynet
The risk that AI transitions from Servant to Master is dramatically appealing–Skynet!–but the real risks are in the mundane realms of the socio-economic order….