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How to Train Your Own AI (Without Writing a Line of Code)

Posted on October 15, 2025 Updated on October 15, 2025

Want your computer to think more like you? Remember those YouTube lectures you loved? Summarize research papers you bookmarked but… Read more

Posted in Education, Technology     

Mac, Windows… or Maybe Something Better

Posted on October 11, 2025 Updated on October 11, 2025

This week marks a quiet but important milestone in tech life. On Tuesday, October 14th, Windows 10 stops receiving security… Read more

Posted in Education, Technology     

Green Energy Won the Market. Ideology Won’t Let It Win the Narrative

Posted on October 7, 2025 Updated on October 7, 2025

There’s a peculiar dynamic at work in American energy policy right now, one that reveals something deeper about our political… Read more

Posted in Climate, Ethics, Policy, Technology     

The Subversive Power of Sharing Books

Posted on October 2, 2025 Updated on October 2, 2025

One of the quiet pleasures of middle age is scanning your own bookshelf, not for something new, but for the… Read more

Posted in Art, Education, Ethics, Policy     

Why the Future Belongs to Storytellers

Posted on September 30, 2025 Updated on September 30, 2025

We live in an age obsessed with data, algorithms, and productivity metrics, yet it is easy to overlook the simplest… Read more

Posted in Media, Stories     

The Heartland Pays the Price of Tariffs

Posted on September 29, 2025 Updated on September 29, 2025

On a quiet stretch of Indiana farmland, the combines should be humming. September is harvest season, when grain silos begin… Read more

Posted in Climate, Ethics, Finance, Policy     

The New Labor Movement Is in Our Living Rooms

Posted on September 25, 2025 Updated on September 25, 2025

Something remarkable is happening. Across the country, renters are joining together to form tenant unions on a scale we have… Read more

Posted in Ethics, Finance, Homelessness, Rights and Equality     

Better Is Not Discovered Once, It Is Rediscovered Daily

Posted on September 24, 2025 Updated on September 24, 2025

Executives love big ideas. They gather in conference rooms, swap metaphors about “moonshots,” and unveil glossy decks about transformation. Yet… Read more

Posted in Education, Technology     

The Future of AI Belongs to All of Us, Not Just Silicon Valley

Posted on September 22, 2025 Updated on September 22, 2025

Here’s what’s happening right now with artificial intelligence: A handful of giant corporations are seizing control of the most transformative… Read more

Posted in Education, Ethics, Finance, Foreign Policy, Technology     

Tariffs, Turbulence, and a Tumbling Job Market

Posted on September 17, 2025 Updated on September 17, 2025

Eighteen months ago, I wrote about an economy trapped in perpetual limbo, like a plane hovering above the runway, promising… Read more

Posted in Finance, Policy     

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