Think Differently. Solve the Impossible.

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Why do so many investigating a topic end up reaching the same conclusion?

Driving through Utah recently, I was struck by the smoke from the wildfires. The scale of the fires was staggering. Later…

Every Electrification Decision Assumes the Grid Will Be Ready

Electricity is becoming the foundation for more and more of modern life: electric vehicles, heat pumps, AI data centers, semiconductor manufacturing, residential electrification. Each decision may be reasonable on its own…

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This is a real-world example of how measurement and attribution can shape how a problem is understood—and how easily we might end up solving the wrong one.

A Note on How to Think About

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What if the debate about data centers isn't really about data centers? What if it's about something much larger What if it's about how societies decide which problems deserve attention, which narratives become dominant…

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When I started reading about AI companies training music-generation models on copyrighted songs, the story seemed straightforward.

• Artists claimed their music had been used without permission.
• AI companies were accused of training models on…

Want to see the data instead of only reading the headline? Here’s a simple way to start.

First, install Anaconda. It gives you an easy way to run Python without needing to be a programmer. After installing it, open…

When we read a headline, we're rarely looking at the evidence ourselves. We're looking at someone else's interpretation of the evidence. That doesn't necessarily make the headline wrong. It does mean we're trusting someone else's conclusions. My mother used to…

This essay is about how certain words stop explaining things — and how that quietly breaks thinking, decisions, and progress.

A word may start as a useful concept and lose its meaning as it becomes overused. When that happens, it…

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Israel, Survival, and the Logic of the State

When people discuss the conflict involving Israel, Iran, and the broader Middle East, they often begin with explanations like oil, religion, politics, territory, or nuclear weapons…

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One thing I recently realized is that I had been making an assumption every time I heard the word war in the news. I assumed there was a moment when something officially became a…

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

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How Smart-Sounding Arguments Go Wrong

If you start with the wrong question, you can reason your way to the wrong answer perfectly.

I came across a claim about beer…

and it’s a perfect example…