One of the quiet pleasures of middle age is scanning your own bookshelf, not for something new, but for the… Read more
Category: Education
Better Is Not Discovered Once, It Is Rediscovered Daily
Executives love big ideas. They gather in conference rooms, swap metaphors about “moonshots,” and unveil glossy decks about transformation. Yet… Read more
The Future of AI Belongs to All of Us, Not Just Silicon Valley
Here’s what’s happening right now with artificial intelligence: A handful of giant corporations are seizing control of the most transformative… Read more
Mozart in the Jungle
I don’t typically write about the arts, but Gustavo Dudamel’s move from the Los Angeles Philharmonic to New York represents… Read more
Three Blueprints for Healing Rural America
The story of rural healthcare in America is always a story of distance. Distance between patients and providers. Distance between… Read more
The Cost of Change Should Not Fall on Workers Alone
The rules of employment are shifting under workers’ feet. Artificial intelligence isn’t just automating tasks; it is redrawing the boundaries… Read more
The Intellectual Elegance of Damien Elmes
There’s something almost subversive about Anki. In a world where every app is designed to capture and monetize your attention,… Read more
Unequal. Unjust. Unacceptable: A Global Dashboard of Redistribution and Inequality
What happens when we stop asking how much people make and start asking how fairly it gets shared? That question… Read more
GPT Ate My Homework
The man sits in his kitchen at 2:47 p.m. on a Tuesday in late August, laptop open, coffee cold, staring… Read more
Naming the Pain: Narrative Labor, Language Mummification, and the Hidden Costs of Writing with AI
Large language models such as ChatGPT and Claude offer powerful capabilities, but long-form creative work remains a persistent failure point…. Read more