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The AI Elder

Takes on AI from someone who’s been around long enough to know the difference between a useful tool and a well-dressed hustle.

A homeowner repairs his own roof in the rain while a professional roofer stands ready below

Right Answers, Wrong Questions

Where “how” ends and “should” begins.

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An older man on a rain-soaked rooftop at dusk, peering at a glowing laptop

On the Roof, in the Rain

One wall came down. I felt it come down.

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An older couple in their kitchen as water pours through a hole in the ceiling

The Frameless Notebook

We solved this three hundred years ago. A pencil cleared the bar every modern tool keeps missing.

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Yul Brynner as Rameses, holding a scroll, in The Ten Commandments

So It Shall Be Written

A Hollywood pharaoh, a Silicon Valley superprompt, and the difference between asking and telling.

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Older man meditating surrounded by phones

Dance the Digital Security Two-Step

The cure for online scams turns out to be something your cardiologist already prescribed.

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An old boxer, still in the corner, still ready

At Least One Guy in Your Corner

A fifty-year career that no platform could read, a friend with every reason to be skeptical, and what a thinking partner actually gave back.

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masked robots dancing in victorian dress

Give a Man a Mask

On masks, media, and why the plumber’s bot failed — not because it was artificial, but because it didn’t fit.

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You've Already Met AI. It Didn't Go Well.

You’ve Already Met AI. It Didn’t Go Well.

Why your instinct to distrust AI is correct — and why it isn’t the whole story.

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The Plumber, The Chatbot and Me

The Plumber, The Chatbot and Me

What a busted water heater taught me about the difference between AI and the people who deploy it.

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