Thoughts.

I went to the Vermont Solutions Summit in Burlington last week mostly for one session. Neale Lunderville, CEO of VGS and chair of the Governor's AI Economic Task Force, was talking about how Vermont turns AI into an economic advantage. That is a job I care about. I

Have you watched a Banana Ball game yet? If you have not, here is the short version. A pitcher on stilts. Players in kilts. A first base coach who dances every inning. Batters doing choreographed routines on the way to the plate. Backflip catches in the outfield. A guy in

I've written before about AI search and why real work beats shortcuts. I stand by all of it. But I want to go a level deeper today, because there's a concept most people in my industry still talk around instead of about. Graphs. Not charts. Graphs

Last week I stood in Fenway Park and watched Phish turn a baseball stadium into a living room. This week I caught Oteil and Friends, and watching Oteil Burbridge play bass is watching fifty years of this music flow through one guy. He held down the low end for the

Last weekend I took our development team up to camp for a retreat. We went to a rodeo. We did team building. We had fun. Some of it was conversations with the team about my role. Some of it was just me, up at camp, with room to think. That

I grew up on the command line. My first machines were old Tandy computers running DOS, and there was no other way to use them. You didn't click anything. You typed. Loading a game, copying a file, formatting a disk, it all happened at a prompt. The CLI