Navigating Public Policy, Technology, Health, Data, and Innovation for a Fairer Future
The NBA tipped off another season last night, and for those of us who have followed the game since Reggie and Rik, something feels different this time. The league is no longer chasing the NFL. It is quietly outgrowing it. The NFL still makes more money, but that’s not the same as momentum. Football owns Read More “The NBA’s Global Bet: How Basketball Became America’s Most Valuable Export”
Want your computer to think more like you? Remember those YouTube lectures you loved? Summarize research papers you bookmarked but never read? You can train your own AI to do exactly that. No coding. No cloud clusters. No PhD required. All you need: two free tools. YouTube and NotebookLM. Step 1: Choose Your Brain Food Read More “How to Train Your Own AI (Without Writing a Line of Code)”
This week marks a quiet but important milestone in tech life. On Tuesday, October 14th, Windows 10 stops receiving security updates. After that, every unpatched PC becomes a little riskier to use. For millions of families, that means one thing: someone’s about to call you for help. I’m already there. My parents’ computer has started Read More “Mac, Windows… or Maybe Something Better”
There’s a peculiar dynamic at work in American energy policy right now, one that reveals something deeper about our political moment than mere partisanship. The facts themselves are straightforward enough. Seventeen of the twenty-two states drawing the highest share of their electricity from wind and solar now enjoy below-average retail power prices. Iowa generates nearly Read More “Green Energy Won the Market. Ideology Won’t Let It Win the Narrative”
One of the quiet pleasures of middle age is scanning your own bookshelf, not for something new, but for the ghosts of what shaped you. The books are a map of who you’ve been, and sometimes, who you still hope to be. The other morning, I noticed a gap. My copy of Daniel Boorstin’s The Read More “The Subversive Power of Sharing Books”
We live in an age obsessed with data, algorithms, and productivity metrics, yet it is easy to overlook the simplest truth: people live by stories. We organize our lives through them, we build trust with them, we justify decisions with them. And yet, in the great ledgers of economics, stories are treated as if they Read More “Why the Future Belongs to Storytellers”
On a quiet stretch of Indiana farmland, the combines should be humming. September is harvest season, when grain silos begin to fill and contracts with Chinese buyers typically bring relief to debt-laden families. Yet this year the bins stand conspicuously empty. China, once the world’s largest buyer of American soybeans, has turned off the spigot. Read More “The Heartland Pays the Price of Tariffs”
Something remarkable is happening. Across the country, renters are joining together to form tenant unions on a scale we have never seen before. In affordable housing complexes owned by Capital Realty Group, more than 1,000 residents in five states are organizing across buildings, across cities, and even across state lines. It is a hopeful, inspiring Read More “The New Labor Movement Is in Our Living Rooms”
Executives love big ideas. They gather in conference rooms, swap metaphors about “moonshots,” and unveil glossy decks about transformation. Yet when the excitement fades, most projects remain exactly where they started: on the slide, never touching the lives of employees or customers. The problem is not lack of vision. The problem is lack of discipline. Read More “Better Is Not Discovered Once, It Is Rediscovered Daily”
Here’s what’s happening right now with artificial intelligence: A handful of giant corporations are seizing control of the most transformative technology of our era, making unilateral decisions about who gets access, how much it costs, and what purposes it serves. This approach is fundamentally backwards. AI should function as a public resource accessible to all Read More “The Future of AI Belongs to All of Us, Not Just Silicon Valley”