Think Differently. Solve the Impossible.

Words like systems, alignment, scale, and innovation often sound precise while quietly avoiding meaning. As they become more popular, they lose their ability to explain what’s actually happening.

This article examines how overused language distorts thinking—especially in…

Why We’re Treating the Symptom Instead of the Cause

Lithium-ion batteries power nearly every device we carry onto airplanes: laptops, phones, tablets, headphones. They are compact, energy-dense, and remarkably reliable most of the time. When they fail, they fail violently…

If software feels slower even as hardware improves, this explains why. The issue is not effort or quality. It is accumulation driven by incentives. Here’s the pattern, why it made sense, and how teams can reverse it.
 

Part 1: Why

We live in a world saturated with information: Labels, headlines, expert statements, fine print, scientific claims, footnotes. The challenge today isn’t access to information — it’s knowing what to trust. Some information is wrong. Some is technically true while being…

Recovery Questions for Clarity, Insight, and Better Decisions

Most confusion isn’t caused by low intelligence — it’s caused by compressed language.

People think they disagree about ideas, when they’re reacting to unexamined assumptions embedded in words. Language regularly…

By Daniel Stih

Fentanyl is the deadliest drug in America,  responsible for more than a quarter of a million deaths and quietly infiltrating medicine cabinets, nightstands, backpacks, and streets across the country. It hides in fake Xanax, counterfeit OxyContin, and…

Solar panels are sold as the ultimate win-win: free energy from the sun, no pollution, no guilt. Put them on your roof and you’re part of the solution. What if that’s only half the story? In this conversation with Gary…

America feels divided in a way that’s different from disagreement. Disagreement is normal. It’s healthy. It’s how pluralistic societies work. This feels different. Conversations feel brittle. People self-censor around friends and family. Every issue becomes moral, urgent, and absolute. Compromise…

I had David Weiss, Flat Earth Dave, as a guest on my podcast. Dave's a famous advocate for the idea that the earth is flat.  As wild and crazy as the idea is, I was fascinated about why people think…

Most of us picture banks the way we picture a person making a loan: You have money in your account. You hand some of it to someone else. Your balance goes down, their balance goes up. Total money in the…

This analysis does not defend any government or leader, and it does not minimize documented abuses or governance failures.

If you’ve followed recent news about Venezuela, you’ve probably heard one of two explanations. Either, “We removed a bad guy,” or…

Based on my conversation with guest John Abron

We live in a time when nearly everything is up for debate.
9/11.
The moon landing.
Government mind-control experiments.
The Federal Reserve.
The elites.
Technocracy.
Power. Truth.

For many, the world no…