A local friend of mine, Andrea Lius, recently had an article published in Smithsonian Magazine about water-breathing bumblebees. She sent it my way, a…

I once spent the better part of a Friday building a PowerPoint presentation about a problem I had already solved. The solution was clear, the data was…

Visitors to the fifth floor of Anthropic's San Francisco headquarters are greeted by warm wood, soft light, a portrait of Alan Turing, and a recep…

If you've spent any time in the lean world, Henry Ford is essentially a founding father. The moving assembly line. Continuous flow. Waste eliminat…

One of the genuine pleasures of retirement is that a random Reddit post can consume your entire morning without guilt. That's exactly what happene…

A friend of mine recently received a letter from a U.S. government-aligned customer directing their company to immediately cease use of all Anthropic…

Ruben Hassid, who writes the "How to AI" newsletter on Substack, made an observation recently that stopped me cold. He calls it "perfor…

Some of my best trips have been the least planned. On a Wednesday in mid-February, my wife and I looked at an open week ahead, a forecast of heavy rai…