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Here's what I published on Saturday, July 11, 2026: Normal Cheating My home state, Utah, is packed with law-breakers, scofflaws. They do it with impunity, on a daily basis. To make matters worse, law enforcement is complicit. It’s illegal to drive faster than the speed limit.

Here's what I published on Friday, July 3, 2026: Tips on Asking for Help Very good advice all around, and it almost all applies to people you know and people you don’t. My last heuristic is stranger: make it easy to say no. You might think that

Here's what I published on Thursday, July 2, 2026: Birthright There’s a fascinating detail in my family history in how its lines crossed once, then not again until a hundred years later. My great-great-grandfathers of the Miller line (Allen Jr., on my dad’s side)

Here's what I published on Monday, June 22, 2026: Some common misconceptions about LLMs I was talking to my mother-in-law this week about how she downloaded ChatGPT to her phone two weeks ago. It’s her first experience with an LLM. We talked about all the

Here's what I published on Saturday, June 13, 2026: Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints All the discourse on social media over the last week+ has been expectedly pointless after the Dept of Defense listed The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as a non-Christian

Here's what I published on Thursday, May 21, 2026: “What the University Is Now For” The threat that AI poses to the future of higher education would be less imminent if it weren’t for a list of other ways that universities have become worse for students and

Here's what I published on Monday, May 18, 2026: Becoming Improbable Your life’s goal should be to become the most improbable person you can be. Your path, your character, your life, should be the most unlikely, the most unexpected, the least predictable version you can make. This

Here's what I published on Thursday, May 7, 2026: Chesler Park & Fiery Furnace Katie and I knocked out two bucket list hikes in one trip, Chesler Park in Canyonlands and Fiery Furnace in Arches. Easily one of my favorite trips we’ve ever done. Here are some

Here's what I published on Friday, April 17, 2026: “Academics Need to Wake Up on AI” The third of a series by Alexander Kustov on AI attitudes among academics. I found the entire series to be quite persuasive. I suspect before long that AI use in academic writing

Here's what I published on Monday, April 13, 2026: Humanity’s Best Invention “Stochastic Parrot” If you’ve followed the AI discourse even just a little bit, you’ve probably come across this dig at Large Language Models like ChatGPT and Claude. As accused, LLMs are just unintelligent

Here's what I published on Wednesday, April 1, 2026: Apple at 50 Apple is 50. (And, hey, me too!) It’s kind of a stunning number really, when you consider how tumultuous the tech industry can be. What a 50 years, though. It feels weird to pay tribute

Here's what I published on Monday, March 30, 2026: Anthropic is winning against DoD As predicted, Anthropic has the obviously superior legal argument and Judge Lin has granted a preliminary injunction shutting down (for now) the Government's actions agains the company. Here's an excellent