Trusting every (short) video you see is now a very bad idea. Because AI. Hopefully we’ll go back to just trusting humans and making sure we have enough of a shared model of the world to do so.

“Even paranoid people have enemies.” Ron Emanuel, _Political Gabfest, October 30th, 2025.

”becoming a parent has forced me to prioritize predictability and comforts that are compatible with the routines and demands of a toddler.” When East Becomes West

“Be yourself,” they always tell me. Yes, but, if I was being myself, I would not have shown up.

There’s a wave of “Back in my day…” nostalgia in the near future as us Gen-X’ers get older. I hope we do it more cool than the boomers did, or just quietly on our own instead of all over Facebook.

“There is so much road in American roads. They widen and narrow like rivers, now six lanes, now twelve, now, but surely not?, fourteen, with various slip roads, merging lanes, separate roads running parallel behind a wall. Road, road, road, stretching out ahead of you towards the mountains.” Henry Oliver

I’d prefer we spread the excellent everywhere instead of just centering it in one place.

“Creating a real-time digital representation of an enterprise build on harmonized data & a system of intelligence (SoI) that is governed and autodidactic will create software-like marginal economics for companies that apply this to their business.” // Contender for Best Enterprise Cant of FY2016.

Does anyone read predictions pieces? In late 2025, I predict that only people who read prediction pieces are people who write prediction pieces.

“So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating weight of argument against it.” // Vibes win every time. John Stuart Mill, by way of Alan Jacobs