Navigating Public Policy, Technology, Health, Data, and Innovation for a Fairer Future
Every generation is convinced that the arts are in decline. People say nobody goes to plays anymore. Nobody listens to real music anymore. Nobody watches serious movies anymore. Technology changed everything, attention spans are shorter, and culture is supposed to be collapsing under the weight of its own distractions. Complaints about the state of the Read More “The Show Must Still Go On”
There is a gymnasium in a small Indiana town where, every other November, a few dozen folding tables are arranged in rows and draped with American flags. Poll workers arrive before dawn with boxes of supplies, voter rolls, and a binder of procedures updated since the last cycle. The doors open at six. By mid-morning Read More “The Machinery of Democracy: 250 Years and Counting”
Consider a composite figure who is easy to find in any American city right now: a healthcare administrator, say, 39 years old, earning $74,000 a year in a mid-size metropolitan area. She has good credit, nine years at the same employer, and a carefully managed budget that accommodates her car lease, her streaming subscriptions, her Read More “The Economy Shifted From Ownership to Access and Nobody Announced It”
Saturday mornings in much of America still begin the same way. Folding tables go up before the sun is fully overhead. Pickup trucks back into parking spaces and unload crates of tomatoes, corn, peaches, and jars with handwritten labels. Coffee steams from paper cups while people walk slowly from stall to stall, talking more than Read More “Where America Still Meets Face to Face”
There is a diagram I drew on whiteboards for twenty years. Three boxes, stacked vertically. Application at the top. System Software in the middle. Hardware at the bottom. I called it the ASH model. Students thought they were learning about computer architecture. What they were actually learning was how the world absorbs a good idea. Read More “The Next Species of Computing”
There is a certain kind of American story that never quite makes the front page. It has no villain, no scandal, no moment of dramatic collapse. It is a story about thousands of people who simply decided to build something together and share what they made. It turns out that story, quiet as it is, Read More “The Knowledge We Build Together”
Artificial intelligence now shapes decisions about jobs, loans, healthcare, and education. When those systems carry bias, the consequences are real for the people affected. One of the biggest obstacles to fixing that problem is surprisingly basic: everyone uses different language to describe it. Researchers, policymakers, auditors, and educators often mean the same thing but talk Read More “The Missing Language of AI Accountability”
Something happened in my family recently that I had not expected. As a member of the sandwich generation, we know that there will be change. Relatives pass, children go off to school or start a family of their own. It is a moving target largely expected. One of my family passed and there was grief. Read More “The Rule Did Not Change. The Household Did.”