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2026: The Year of Coherence
As the new year dawns, I realize that the last 5 years have taught me many important lessons. After Integration (2024) and Flow (2025), my word or intention for 2026 is coherence.
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Jan 33 min read


Can AI Help Us Heal What It Helped Break?
We are living through the consequences of technologies built without asking what they were doing to our nervous systems. Now we have a chance and even a responsibility to build something different.
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Dec 16, 20254 min read


The Paradigm-Shifting Founder Loop
Every founder that's making something transformational comes to a crossroads. There is a time to keep visioning or a time to execute. Being able to move and moving out of your own way can be the difference between changing the system and staying in the invention loop forever.
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Dec 2, 20254 min read


Waste to Wonder - What DIY Vape Batteries Teach Us about AI and Human Imagination
Where does invention come from? Always the unlikely places. In this blog I discuss a recent inventor that powered his house with 500 disposable single use vape batteries.
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Nov 25, 20253 min read


The Keeper of the Fire: A Modern African Parable About AI, Spirit, and Who Gets to Shape Tomorrow
An African Parable of AI and Spirit. Who keeps the technology that creates our tomorrow?
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Nov 12, 20254 min read


Sacred Intelligence? Re-imagining Spirituality Next.
What happens to our institutions in the age of AI? In this post, I explore what happens to spirituality as we move propel forward with this new form of intelligence.
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Nov 4, 20254 min read


The Great Unlearning
A deep dive into the need for Higher Education in the Age of AI.
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Oct 28, 20254 min read


Embracing Complexity: Taylor Swift, AI, and the Art of Interpretation
Questions related to the response to my prior post on Taylor Swift's use of AI in her promotional campaign for Life of a Showgirl.
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Oct 21, 20253 min read


Between Magic and Machinery: Artists, AI, and the Burden of Authenticity
Something strange happened in the world of Taylor Swift last week. A series of shimmering, dreamlike promotional videos for her new album...
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Oct 14, 20253 min read


A Watershed for AI and Creativity: Reflections on the Anthropic Settlement
The $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement: A Turning Point for Creativity and AI The $1.5 billion Anthropic settlement is a turning point. For years, creative professionals have supplied the invisible backbone of artificial intelligence. Their words, images, and voices trained the systems that now dominate the landscape of digital innovation. Until now, they received nothing. This settlement changes the narrative. It recognizes that human creativity is not a free dataset. It has
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Oct 5, 20253 min read


Em-Dashes, Negations, and the Fingerprints of AI Writing
Last week I was consulting with a client when I stumbled across a LinkedIn post. The subject was earnest enough—“AI should never replace...
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Sep 29, 20253 min read


I AM Who I Want: Authenticity in the Age of AI
The words came not from me, but from my beloved over coffee one morning: “I may not be where I want, but I AM who I want.” PROMPT:...
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Sep 23, 20253 min read


Tidework
Lessons in water. A poem.
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Sep 16, 20251 min read


Remembering Ourselves Forward II
Introducing Ancestral Echoes. Your AI Anthropologist for preserving your family legacy.
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Sep 12, 20252 min read


When the Shelter Falls: Ritual Reimagined at Burning Man
I went to Burning Man this year carrying the intention of an ancestral grief ritual. It was going to be my contribution to our camp...
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Sep 9, 20253 min read


Beyond Words: What Elephants and Orcas Can Teach AI About the Future of Intelligence
This week I was struck by two powerful stories of non-human communication. Elephants in Zimbabwe using non-verbal gestures to ask humans...
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Aug 14, 20252 min read


Hours with Claude Does Not Make an App
This is the refrain I used with a friend who asked me what I thought about a potential project. There is something I keep seeing in the...
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Aug 6, 20252 min read


NOT THEO! Why We Must Capture the Now
If I had a dollar for every time I said my life could be a sitcom, I would have enough to hire Stephen Colbert and the South Park guys....
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Jul 25, 20252 min read


Where Have All The Joyful Futures Gone?
A Call to Artists in the Age of AI If you've noticed a trend lately, you're not alone. In the past year, I’ve watched films like...
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Jul 16, 20252 min read


Einstein, Picasso, and the AI Imagination Gap
If I’ve learned anything from years of working across both the technical and the transcendent, it’s this: the biggest missing ingredient...
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Jul 8, 20252 min read
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