Behind the Scenes of Building an Iris Scrolling and surfing social media, willfully throwing myself down information rabbit holes, I am a product of this age as much as anyone. I am also part of a team now, and our project is both simple and wildly exciting. We are building…

Large Language are Archives for the Future Humans I will keep this brief, as in short as hell, because for many today will feel like a circle within a nested circle of that suffering realm. Political unrest; got it all over — see Iran, Israel, France for examples. Rising authoritarianism…

The App Wars Get Real I’m finally OK with losing my TikTok. I’m not an influencer on it, not even close, but I enjoy it. It has sucked a few mornings out of my life (bad) and it has brought me laughter and insight, even learning (good). …

Exclamations from the Edge of the Anthropocene It’s one of those days when I’m catching up with the news, and the algorithm alerts me to a frightful discovery. The Anthropocene is here now, finally arrived according to some geologists who have woefully discovered plastic rocks. Yes, plastic has fused with…

The Rise of AI as Palette One of the first color images of Earth was released by NASA at the prompting of a campaign started by Stewart Brand. Brand used that image as the cover of a new type of magazine — one he titled, Whole Earth Catalog. By using…

The Game has just gone up a level. Dear Friends, All around our globe the convergence of culture and technology are vibrantly visible. Current circumstances of the political kind and the evolution of culture, of language and of its ordering principles are causing tiny eruptions. As authoritarian laws are passed…

Now that Disney has released a trailer with a non-white mermaid, it feels like the right time to talk a little bit about the mermaid’s history. The truth is the half human, half fish being has been with us for thousands of years. By the time the mermaid showed up…

I was once contracted to write a book for a client. The idea was that we might write it together, but that I would put down the bones. I drew from the company literature, from the person’s stories. I drew the writing from our mutual belief in the world, its…

Written in light of my father’s death from pre-existing conditions. Proposed as a collection with the title: The Resurrection of Gold. 2022. The Threshold There was a place where I heard you breathe cold against the morning light You were minutes from leaving but still we counted in days We…