Observations from altitude — on AI, technology, and getting things done.

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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Scaling Your Talents

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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