America Is a Pacific Power — You Just Need the Right Map
Americans don’t usually think of the United States as a Pacific country. California is where the country seems to stop, Hawaii floats in a little box somewhere off […]
Category: Technology
The Era of Information Junk
Anyone who has cleaned out the house of an elderly relative knows that finding something and learning something are not necessarily the same thing. You open a closet […]
How the Washington Naval Conference Turned Into a Poker Game
In November 1921, representatives of the world’s major naval powers arrived in Washington to negotiate what amounted to one of the most expensive games on Earth. The United […]
John Daly and the Bunker Problem
Robin Williams famously made one of the funniest observations about the game of golf by reducing it down to it’s absurd fundamentals. Someone took a perfectly good landscape […]
Your North Star Comes Before AI
Many discussions about artificial intelligence begin with the wrong question. People ask, What can AI do? The more important question is, What is the human trying to accomplish? […]
Authorship in the Age of AI
Every new technology seems to make us revisit old questions. Artificial intelligence is doing that now with authorship, because it has made it possible to separate the […]
AI as an External Thinking Partner
Artificial intelligence is often described in extremes. Depending on who you ask, it’s either going to replace millions of jobs and eventually surpass humanity, or it’s the greatest […]
Why Incentives Matter More Than Intentions
When something goes wrong, our first instinct is usually to look for someone to blame. We ask why a company made a particular decision, why a politician voted […]
What Great Magazines Understood About Beauty
Spend a few minutes with a magazine from the 1930s through the 1960s and you’ll notice something different almost immediately. The illustrations invite you to pause before you […]
Why Trust Will Decide the Future of AI
After using ChatGPT for less than two weeks, I’ve already come to a conclusion that differs from both the fear and the hype surrounding artificial intelligence. Before I […]