History Has Re-Entered the Meeting: Trump in Beijing, Chips, AI Robots & Europe’s Digital ID Mess
For the first time in a long while, we skipped last Monday’s brief, but for a very good reason: after nine months of work, the…
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When a Mayor Decides to Think Different
What happens when a mayor decides to do something genuinely different, not just manage better, but build differently? The usual answer involves a new building,…
The Three Minds of Apple: On the Ternus Succession
In April 2026, Apple announced a transition that, on its surface, appeared almost uneventful. Tim Cook, who had served as chief executive officer for fifteen…
The shortcut wants the whole road
Kade Lovell, a 9-year-old boy from St. Cloud, Minnesota, signed up for the St. Francis Franny Flyer 5K, entered the modest and apparently navigable kingdom…
Sovereignty Is Not a PDF – Apple’s New Era and the Crisis of Material Reality
Apple announced that Tim Cook will become executive chairman on September 1, and that John Ternus, the company’s senior vice president of Hardware Engineering, will…
Area Denial
I remember my first scifi convention. I was a little awed, a little Dorothy-opening-the-grayscale-door. I’d married the only girl in college who read Terry Pratchett…
A German Walks Into a Bar and Pays for the Apocalypse
A German walks into a bar. Of course he does. Not because he wants to. Not because he believes in fun. He walks in because…
The Map No Longer Matches the Territory
In the winter of 1776, as Adam Smith finished The Wealth of Nations, the world ran at the speed of an ox and the power…
How we Learned to Call Collapse a Transition While Everyone Important Stared at a Dashboard
Power without form does not produce control. It produces motion. And motion, however precise, however expensive, however satisfyingly destructive at the level of individual operations,…
Motion Without Direction: The Crisis of A War Without Form
I have been watching this war unfold not as a sequence of events but as a system in motion. Once you begin to see it…
Pain isn’t where your body is hurt, it’s where your brain thinks it is
Close your eyes for a moment and imagine this: you are sitting calmly, your hand resting on a table, the kind of neutral, unremarkable posture…
The Norris Synthesis – aka: How to innovation and win
Last week we lost Chuck Norris, and because he was one of the heroes of my childhood, I went back to study his career with…