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ESSAYS & NOTES — LATEST APR 2025Latest
Debunking AI MythsTaking on the three AI misconceptions I hear spread most: energy use, artists' rights, and AI detection.APR 2025Press 1 for ImaginationCollective anxiety around AI has stunted our imagination for the future — a case for asking what could be.FEB 2025Risk, Resilience, and SpiritednessLessons from a year of operating on the extremes: risk, resilience, and the Greek notion of spiritedness.DEC 2024Service Layer OpportunityWhy the AI era opens new ground for companies that sell the output of software, not the software itself.NOV 2024The Octopus and the AlgorithmReading octopus cognition against LLMs: intelligence needs a body, and creativity still needs us.JUL 2024Free Intellectual EnergySteve Jobs's 1985 vision of "free intellectual energy" — and why AI's wave is worth riding, not fearing.APR 2024How AI May Offer Us a Path to Reclaim Our HumanityA case that AI's more natural interfaces could push screens out of the way and give us back the moment.MAR 2024Bridging Minds: the Quest for True Artificial IntelligenceHow today's learning models echo the brain — attention, the neocortex, and the Thousand Brains Theory.FEB 2024Why I Started SkydivingA teenage YouTube obsession, a decade-late return to the sky, and why your younger self knows what you want.JUN 2023Echoes from the Past: Recreating a Loved One’s Voice with AICloning my father's pre-Parkinson's voice from a 2000 news clip — and the quiet case for AI doing good.MAY 20233 Steps for Better Digital Security in 2017Three habits I treat as standard procedure: two-factor auth, a password manager, and encrypted messaging.MAY 2017
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- AgriMarketingSignal Theory Elevates Five Leaders, Expands Its Executive Committee APR 2026(opens in new tab)
- Springfield Daily CitizenLongtime Nixa superintendent battles Parkinson's with the love of his wife and sons JAN 2026(opens in new tab)
- Little Black BookBeyond the Brief: Honouring Great Strategy and Unpacking What It Takes SEP 2025(opens in new tab)
- InfegyWEBINARCool Sh!t: The Infegy API's Limitless Possibilities APR 2025(opens in new tab)
- AgriMarketingSignal Theory Unveils AL Whose AI Model Fuses Advertising With Behavioral Science JUL 2024(opens in new tab)
- The Drum'A steady trajectory toward hell': Marketing leaders' digital utopias and dystopias APR 2023(opens in new tab)
- The DrumBYLINE3 ways no-code and low-code can ease team pain points – and deliver the best UX APR 2023(opens in new tab)