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