Some of the smartest people I know are working three jobs, and none of them are full time. A startup CEO I met last month described his team this way: a fractional CFO from Chicago, a part-time brand strategist in Portugal, a […]
Modern economies reward efficiency, not reflection. Our institutions—schools, platforms, governments—are calibrated to deliver outcomes, track progress, and benchmark success. In this landscape, the arts are often treated as indulgences: budget-line luxuries, extracurricular distractions, or marketplace novelties. Yet this utilitarian bias misses something […]
NYC has one of America’s most watched mayoral races ongoing. Perhaps the most surprising issue dominating headlines is not crime or housing. It is childcare. Candidates are proposing free care for toddlers, city-run after-school programs, extended school days, and tax-funded support for […]
It began with a cough. Then a fever. By the time the red rash appeared on Ian Rojas’s neck, the pediatric unit at Dallas Methodist had already started pulling masks from storage. A disease thought to be a relic of another era, […]
In 2024, a junior associate at a boutique law firm in Chicago began training a GPT model to write like his managing partner. There was no directive. No job title. No formal training. Just curiosity and a backlog of contracts to draft. […]
Homelessness in America is not a crisis of ideas. It is a crisis of follow-through. Every few years, headlines declare a renewed focus. Tent encampments become election issues. Cities deploy task forces, declare emergencies, and promise action. But if you trace the […]
Most people believe that if a study proves something works, the system will change. That is not how it goes. We live in a country where the machinery of research is world-class, but the machinery of implementation is largely improvised. Brilliant people […]
The story begins in a university lab, just after midnight. The hum of a centrifuge fills the room. A young scientist, sleeves rolled up and elbow-deep in yeast cultures, refreshes her inbox. Nothing. The grant that kept her project alive is in […]
The House Agriculture Committee just passed a $300 billion proposal that answers one question with brutal clarity: Who pays for dinner in America? The answer is not the billionaires. Not the corporations. Not the wealthy donors underwriting the very tax cuts driving […]
Maps have always been powerful tools for understanding our world, but with the rise of computational cartography, they are evolving into something even more dynamic and insightful. Computational cartography blends traditional map-making with data science, machine learning, and geospatial analytics. It’s not […]