The Balloon Effect: How Tariffs Create More Problems Than They Solve
26 October 2025
Last week, Ontario Premier Doug Ford launched a $75 million ad campaign featuring Ronald Reagan’s own words warning against tariffs. The ad has aired…
When Efficiency Becomes Fragility: What AWS Outages and Rare Earth Controls Tell Us About Hidden Dependencies
22 October 2025
On October 20, something broke in Northern Virginia that knocked banking systems offline in London, halted warehouse operations for Amazon itself, and…
Using AI Advisory Teams: Expert Knowledge On Demand
14 October 2025
I've been experimenting with something that would have seemed like pure science fiction just a few years ago: assembling advisory teams of world-r…
The Mysterious Architecture of Memory: Why Your Brain Stores Curdled Milk Stories
6 October 2025
Yesterday, standing in my kitchen preparing breakfast, I had one of those startling moments where the past crashes into the present with crystalline c…
The Science of Better Sleep: How Small Changes Transformed My Brain Health at 60
29 September 2025
Two years ago, as I settled into my 60s and finally found breathing room after four decades of career stress, I made a decision that would fundamental…
Prediction Machines: Why We Might Be More Like AI Than We Think
27 September 2025
Something fascinating is happening at the intersection of artificial intelligence and neuroscience, and I can't shake the feeling we're witnes…
The Attention Apocalypse: How Shallow News Consumption is Fracturing Our Democracy
20 September 2025
There's something deeply unsettling about watching my twenty-something neighbor scroll through TikTok while claiming to be "catching up on th…
The Sacred Voices We Almost Lost: Remembering the Women Erased from Holy Texts
1 September 2025
They held the ink that shaped the sacred—sometimes with trembling hands, sometimes with confident strokes. Their names are missing from footnotes and…