Meanderings, Opinions, and Articles

Ideas, opinions, and things I’m building. These posts are mine — not peer-reviewed, and not a reflection of the university I work for.

• October 2026 Games…What Are They Good For? It’s All Systems Thinking, All the Way Down

  Games are models of systems, and playing them is a way into systems thinking — a better target than “critical thinking,” especially now that AI can win the grades game for you.

• September 2026 Get Off My Lawn: Is That Our Real Problem with AI?

  Old and young alike are upset with AI, just about different sides of the same fence. I think the answer to both fears is semantic knowledge — built the hard way, through first-principles exercises — and it’s the path to the superpower.

• September 2026 Learning Produces Judgment, and Other Things I Took From the Cornell Report

  Reading Cornell’s Future of the American University report with two questions: how an Ivy is thinking about AI as a disruptor, and whether the institution’s economics are actually linked to its mission.

• August 2026 Hello, Ether…

  Why this exists: not peer-reviewed, not the university talking — a place to explore ideas, advertise what I’m building, and find people to build with.