Navigating Public Policy, Technology, Health, Data, and Innovation for a Fairer Future
Three years ago, I wrote an article called “AI and the Adjuncts: The Converging Trends Reshaping Higher Education.” At the time, the argument felt speculative, though not far-fetched. AI was beginning to move into teaching, tutoring, grading, writing support, and academic administration. Adjunct labor had already become one of the hidden foundations of American higher Read More “The Graduation Promise and the Adjunct Reality”
Earl walks the apron at 5:47 in the morning, before most of the airport is awake. He has worked for the same regional carrier for thirty-four years, and he is one of the senior aircraft maintenance technicians at a hangar that services a fleet of regional jets nobody outside aviation thinks about. He carries a Read More “Craft, the Third Moat: Done Is Easy, Good Is the Moat”
The first mistake is looking for disappearing jobs. The second mistake is looking only at Silicon Valley. The third mistake is assuming that the country with the best artificial intelligence model automatically wins the century. Each of these mistakes is comfortable, because each of them lets us keep the maps we already own. Taken together, Read More “Welcome to the Iceberg Economy”
The news was heavy again this morning. It usually is. Traffic reports, political arguments, prices rising, systems failing, everyone seemingly convinced that the person on the other side of the argument is either foolish or dangerous. There is a weight to the information environment we have built for ourselves, a low-grade exhaustion that accumulates before Read More “TTST: Thank Three Someones Today”
There is a man named Raymond who does tile and fixture work out of a white van with his name and number on the door. He has been at it for twenty-two years. He answers his own phone. He is not the cheapest contractor in the county and he is not the most expensive, and Read More “Trust, the Second Moat: When Information Gets Cheap, Trust Gets Expensive”
At 4:17 in the morning, the medical ICU is quiet except for the soft chirp of monitors and the hush of pumps cycling antibiotics. The early-warning system on the wall, the hospital’s new AI deterioration model, shows the patient in bed seven as stable. Heart rate green. Respiration green. Oxygen saturation green. The model has Read More “The 7 Moats: Moat #1 – Judgment, The First Human Advantage”
There was a time when horse racing was gloriously inefficient, which is to say human. A man in a wrinkled seersucker suit could study a racing form folded soft from handling, squint toward the paddock, listen to a rumor drifting through cigar smoke, and persuade himself that wisdom, not luck, had brought him to the Read More “This is why we can’t have nice things”
There was something almost quietly radical in the announcement, though it arrived wrapped in the familiar language of a government press release. Prime Minister Mark Carney stood in Ottawa and proposed what Canada has never had before, a national sovereign wealth fund. The Canada Strong Fund was introduced as an instrument of nation-building, a vehicle Read More “When Democracies Start Thinking Like Investors”
There is a woman named Renee who has worked as a unit secretary at a regional hospital for nineteen years. She schedules procedures, coordinates patient transfers, fields calls from frightened families, and serves as the unofficial institutional memory of a floor that sees everything human life produces: birth, recovery, confusion, grief, and occasionally joy. Last Read More “What Still Works in America: The Seven Moats Season 3, Article 1: The Frame”
Something has changed in the texture of professional life, though it is difficult to name precisely because the change is happening in the quietest of places. A spare bedroom. A converted den. A home office overlooking a backyard where no one is watching. A single person sits at the center of a system. Emails are Read More “The Conductor and The Rise of the One-Person Company”