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Monday, October 5, 2026

The Unintentional Victim Monster

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My son sent me a note the other day. Not a text, not a meme, but an actual piece of thinking, the kind of thing you write when an idea has b...
Thursday, October 1, 2026

Out of Many, One: The Motto We Should NEVER Have Replaced

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Sixty-nine years ago today... Small things over time become big things. Small changes can lead to large consequences, and a four-word phrase...
Monday, September 28, 2026

The Formula - A thought experiment, followed to the end

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A note before reading: This is a thought experiment, and it is labeled as one for a reason. It takes a formula that many people have quietl...
Monday, September 21, 2026

The Filing Cabinet Never Lied to Me, I Just Kept Changing the Rules

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The Mess That Isn't One For most of my life I've described my own organizational skills the same way, apologetically. I'd call t...
Monday, September 14, 2026

We Once Loved the Birth of the Internet.

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We LOVED the text-based Internet. "Information is free!" "Community, not capitalism!" We weren't socialists, or comm...
Saturday, September 12, 2026

9/11: Ignorance Was the Failure Then. It Can't Be Our Future Now

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I wasn’t going to talk about this as I’ve written before online about my experience on 9/11/2001.  But I’ve now heard several people on TV t...
Friday, September 11, 2026

9/11/2026

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Fifteen years old today I wrote a blog about 9/11, at that time, ten years prior. I wrote this here back on June 7, 2010, arguing for surgic...