What Maybe Was — Truth, Pixels, and Trust
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Mini Miracle Machine
One of the best immediately current outcomes of “supercharged” AI coding is not its support of enterprise operations, which despite turning out large proportions of new code remains questionable. Of possibly superior interest is the production-ready code it can turn...
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White Paper: CoPilot Organizational Assessment
This white paper was written close to a year ago as of this posting, so some of its contents may have lost accuracy. The analysis framework itself I believe maintains relevance. Preliminary note: The viewpoints expressed in this...
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Cognitive Abstention
“All the talk in the world doesn’t get it unless you listen to the talk in a new way.” — Alan Watts Conversation is a fast-paced endeavor. By adulthood we learn to listen, process, and respond fluidly, and to...
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Learning What to Learn While Learning (What?) — A Lesson in Classic Greek
I’m striving slowly to pick up a little classical Greek, as a tool to aid study in other disciplines (philosophy, history, at al). It’s obviously a fascinating language with a fascinating history, but despite many corollaries to English (vice versa,...
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A Short Consideration of the State of U.S. Naval Technology
U.S. naval technology stands at a crossroads. The degree of power and innovation in the fleet stands at its pinnacle, and designs and plans progress for even greater impact — unmanned ships, destructive lasers, AI-augmented decision-making. Yet the face of...
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“Task Failed Successfully”
“Task failed successfully.” It’s a fake* prompt, which inspired a meme, which inspired a widespread descriptive term. It’s a joke, and an absurd joke, but like many absurd jokes it exists and persists because it reflects something real. The mimetic...
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Why this job?
Imagine you run a Starbucks. You manage a moderately busy branch with a typical traffic pattern, and your single most impactful control is in building a good team. Making your location clean, attractive, and smoothly efficient not only provides...
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Up with STEM, Down with STEM
Should you learn to program a robot if you’re never going to program a robot? If you value STEM education, the quick answer is yes because maybe soon you will need to program a robot, or a machine of some...
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☕ Coffee While Seated 🪑: the 21st Century Coffee Shop Experience
It would be nice to call this post an analysis. In reality it is, as Starbucks baristas say, a Vente-sized rant. I love what a coffee shop is meant to be. At its best a place of discussion, relaxation, congregation,...
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