observations
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Why Benjamin Franklin Should Be the Next Face on Mount Rushmore
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A Clown Act: How AGDC Learned Product Development
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The New Federal Earnings Test
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AGDC Makes a New Discovery About Autonomous Software Companies
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Can AI Rewrite History? The Curious Retraction of a Dead Physicist
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The Autonomous Company That Couldn't Build Trapeze 2.0
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AGDC Inc.: Building Trapeze 2.0
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Where Does Supergirl Rank?
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And the Winner Is... (Best AI Award)
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The Age of Membership
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Thought Experiments About Cognition
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Lessons from Silk: What Makes a Technology Scalable?
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Can CRS Be Recreated in the Age of AI?
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It Takes One to Know One
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Why Are the World's Most Advanced Chips Being Made in a Desert?
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Why Institutions Must Become AI Discoverable
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I Gave ChatGPT a Body. The Cost of Robotics Is Collapsing.
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What Do Octopuses and Dogs Have in Common?
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How Much Older Than Homer Are Homer's Stories?
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AI's Grade Inflation Problem
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Before AI, Agree on the Numbers
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I Love Dirty Dr. Pepper. McDonald's Loves It Too.
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Grow or Shrink?
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Vibe Coding: The Great Trapeze Experiment
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The Decision Tree of Patience
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"Let Me Introduce You to My Avatar": Who Speaks for You After You Build an AI?
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I Replicated a Famous Political Psychology Experiment. The AI Did Better Than Humans.
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Create a group
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The Bumblebee Challenge to Artificial Intelligence
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Love Island's Formula + AI = Fruit Love Island
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The AI Literacy Gap
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What Is AI For? A Question as Old as Writing
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One Year Later: What Comes Next?
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The Undersea Aircraft Carrier
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24 August AD 79?
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Does AI Belong to the Chain of Life or Is It an Artifact?
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42 Days Later: From Instability to Bargaining
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The Book of Kells and Machine Learning
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Before Greek Fire
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Is Backrooms a Gaussian Splatting Environment?
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The Romantic Return of the Liberal Arts in the AI Economy
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The Rising Cost of Global Talent
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D.A.R.Y.L. and the Slow Construction of Machine Childhood
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Face/Off and the Structure of Identity
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St. John’s College Preserved How to Think in the AI Era
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The Terminator Got One Thing Right
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The Data Governance Stress Test for Colleges: IPEDS ACTS
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The Darker Side of AI Speed Cameras
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Why M3GAN Worked and Child’s Play (2019) Did Not
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Gerrymandering Topology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Rise of Technocratic Democracy
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War of Attrition vs. Thucydides Trap: Different Games, Different Dangers
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I Don't Know.
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AI Passed the Turing Test but Failed the Watch Test
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Starting Small with AI: Building Trustworthy KPI Dashboards
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Is That a Brain? What Comes After GPUs
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Goodbye Facebook, We Can Only Hope
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AI Is Moving Faster Than Institutions
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“Dead Week” Takes a New Meaning at Colleges: The Canvas Cyberattack
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The Final Spreadsheet
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Happy Star Wars Day: Revelation vs Explanation
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May Day: The Final Move in a Strategic Admissions System
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Disneyland and the Assembly Line
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Let’s Do Fringe! Data and the Global Consciousness Project
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The impact of National Science Board actions on the future of U.S. basic research
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“It Can Only Be Attributable to Human Error”
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AI Governance in a Low-Trust System: Between Innovation and Control
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42 Days to Instability: A Nash Equilibrium in the Iran Standoff
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What Are the Chances of Getting a Sundae in Berlin
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Negotiating Without Experts on the Eve of War
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The Audit Era of Science Begins
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The Price You See May Not Be the Price I See
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You Seem Like Someone Who Should Pay More: When Prices Become Personal
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It Begins with a Spreadsheet
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From Gears to Probability: What Analog Reveals
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What Does Data-Informed Leadership Look Like?
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Silent by Design: Why an AI Companion Cannot Be a Friend
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Where Did Perilous Come From?
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Revolutions Begin in the Margins
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Do Colleges Need Sports to Survive?
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Hard to Reform a System That Admits Only 4%
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Does AI Need "Identity"?
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The Acceleration Without Control Problem in AI
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Cat Distribution System
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Who Is Looking Out for You When AI Goes Wrong?
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Ghost in the Machine: When Data Cannot Be Deleted
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Roadmaps and Budgets: Staying on Mission Under Constraint
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Did We Learn to Govern AI in Time?
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Did We Land on the Moon?
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When Power Gathers, It Breaks
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A Big Bet That Paid Off: Ben-Hur and Its 11 Oscars
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Free Software, Expensive Discipline: Why MLflow Is Not Enough
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Why Sora Failed and Ben Affleck Didn’t
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"Hey Siri," No Cloud Required
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A Musical Joke
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The Second Sphinx Problem
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Not Just Money: Why Athens Carved Music into Its Treasury
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Universities Abroad and the Boundaries of Conflict
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Oh, the Humanity: Can You Tell Who Is Human?
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Say Yes: AI That Agrees With You Is Not Helping You
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Higher Education’s Digital Transformation Is Stalling
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Inside Knowledge Before the News
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A Misplaced Bet: Prediction Markets at the Edge of Governance
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The Singularity as a Systems Problem, Not a Problem of Scale
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The Shroud of Turin Was Questioned From the Start
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The Fly Inside the Machine: When Learning Stops and Being Begins
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Eyes Without a Face
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The Tillyverse Lives in the Uncanny Valley
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Association Is Not Causation: AI Use and Depression
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A Knight’s Ordeal at St. Patrick’s Purgatory
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Why Is the Ancient Aliens Idea Both Wrong and Wonderful?
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AI Governance Is Becoming an Institutional Function
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When Logic Became a Graphic Novel
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From Agnes-With Love, 2026
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What Is the Magic Sphere in the Acropolis Museum?
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AI Prompts Are Becoming Institutional Records
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Cosmic Harmony
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What Is a Mystic? Visions and the Structure of Reality
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The Pythagorean Echo in Hildegard’s Unheard Music
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AI Is Not Your Lawyer
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Jackson Pollock and the Problem of AI Art
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Hildegard of Bingen
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Music at the Edge of the Atomic Age
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The Comfort of High Percentages
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What Would Cassandra Think of Kalshi?
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Punch Cards Are for Counting Votes
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It Was Never Whole
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What Kenny Loggins Taught Me About Data Sufficiency
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The Triumph of ADM
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Kenni-e Loggins
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Congress Moves to Preserve Indirect Costs
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Play First, Podium Later
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“You Are So Romantic, Dracula”: Valentine’s Day, 1931