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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

Here's what I published on Tuesday, March 24, 2026: My Favorite Youtube Channels About AI Hands down, the current best platform for learning about AI is Youtube. The challenge is finding the channels that have substance to them rather than promising how to vibecode your way to a

Here's what I published on Monday, March 9, 2026: What if we teach students how to use AI critically (instead of teaching them not to use it)? I don't see our choice as "AI or no AI" any more than past generations could halt

Here's what I published on Saturday, March 7, 2026: The Age of Living Software The world of software is changing so quickly that it's hard to keep up with all of the new ways we can use it. One of those ways became apparent to me

Here's what I published on Tuesday, March 3, 2026: Anthropic Will Win Against DoD Regarding what I wrote yesterday, this piece is an expert overview of the laws at stake and why DoD’s supply chain risk designation for Anthropic is doomed to fail. From the government'

Here's what I published on Monday, March 2, 2026: Anthropic doesn’t have to work for anyone, including the government I’ve seen enough takes on the Anthropic/DoD conflict since it all went down last week, and I’m surprised at how often this important principle is

Here's what I published on Saturday, February 28, 2026: More Provo Street Photography A fun morning wandering downtown Provo with some great people. 💬 Comment on this post If someone forwarded you this email, you can subscribe here

Here's what I published on Wednesday, February 4, 2026: If AI companies were consumer tech from a decade ago Late night noodling, but even in the light of day this still feels right to me. If we mapped current #AI companies to consumer tech from the 2010s: Anthropic