Navigating Public Policy, Technology, Health, Data, and Innovation for a Fairer Future
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”
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 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”
A recent LinkedIn post by Dr. Jillian Goldfarb called attention to an invoice most of us never see. She had been asked to peer review a paper for a Nature-family journal. The article processing charge, paid by the author to make that single paper open access, was $12,850. That figure deserves a moment. It is Read More “The Price of Being Seen: How Open Access Publishing Is Sorting American Science”
There is a small box somewhere in your home that connects everything. Your phone. Your laptop. Your kid’s tablet. Your thermostat. Every byte of data that moves through your house passes through that box before it reaches the internet. The federal government just declared it a national security emergency. On March 23, 2026, the FCC Read More “Your Router, the Supply Chain, and a Growing Concern”
Politics tends to flatten people. Over time, complex lives get reduced to a handful of talking points, a voting record, or a few moments on cable news. The result is a public square populated by simplified figures rather than human beings shaped by place, culture, and experience. Mary Peltola is often described as the first Read More “Who Is Mary Peltola and Why You Want to Know”
Democracy is one of the most discussed subjects in American public life and one of the least examined. Citizens are saturated with commentary, prediction, and partisan argument, but almost never given access to the structural mechanics that determine how elections actually work. I built the Midterm Dashboard because that gap is not a minor inconvenience. Read More “Mapping the Mechanics of Power: A New Civic Tool for Midterms”
Consider Marcus, a software engineer in Indianapolis who has not written a straightforward line of code in years. His job, officially, is backend infrastructure. In practice, he spends his days making judgment calls: which abstraction holds up under scale, which tradeoff is acceptable, which system design will still make sense to the next team that Read More “The Creative Economy Is Not a Niche. It Is the New Default.”