John, my eldest, graduated from UVA and took a job as a raft guide in Missoula, MT for the summer. I decide to drive out there with him. In case you were unaware, Montana is a long way away from Virginia. I’ve looked at driving there many times in the past. Strangely, one of my […]
Category: Reflections
Stripped of intuition, can you even wander?
I didn’t think we were doing very well with technology and building technological intuition1 prior to AI. We were not, with any degree of consistency or scale, helping people understand how to use technology to augment simple thinking, let alone preparing them to augment their thinking in new and different ways. I look back to […]
Linocut III – The adventure continues
Unlike Remo Williams, I continue to honor my promises and produce sequels. While I haven’t actually printed anything recently, I have been doing more work in the realm of linocuts. In the real of practicing what I preach, here are many things that are not where I’d like them but are part of the process […]
Carving Linoleum Continues
I’m still very much in the try-things-and-see-what-happens stage. I can sense a few mysteries lurking that are key to doing what I want. For carving, I have switched from the soft pink rubber stuff to the hard battleship gray linoleum. It is much harder to cut but makes a world of difference in detail and […]
Taking photos at events
I went and spoke to some students at my kids’ high school who are in the year book class and are going to do event photography. So I’ve been thinking quite a bit. Turns out there are a lot of things I wanted to talk about. I was pretty excited about doing this and perhaps […]
Linocut printmaking
The Internet still works pretty well for me.1 It brought me some examples of linocuts that got me interested in something I haven’t done since 7th grade. I went on my normal pattern of following a bunch of people who do this on Instagram2, watching a random assortment of YouTube videos (from tutorials to documentaries) […]
Claude’s Vibe Coding Misdirection
Given I’m making a vibe coding presentation/workshop, this example seemed worth breaking down. I think it shows how different it can be to look at what’s going on in AI code generation scenarios if you have a foundation in programming and if you’ve developed a mental map of how things work/don’t work. A friend sent […]
Blog Questions Challenge 2025
Brian tagged me in this blog challenge. It’s probably been a number of years since I’ve done or seen one of these but more recent than I thought. Maybe 2018 from Alan? Why did you start blogging in the first place? I was teaching 6th grade in a 1:1 laptop school in the very early […]
The Legend Of John Henry’s Hammer & other AI-related stuff we mostly cut from the Detox
I’m doing way too much AI-related research. It is maddening to try to grasp functional truth and applicable terms in a world of hyperbole (good and bad) and definition creep that gets tied up with every other major issue in our society. My death spiral to the root problem being capitalism is not particularly helpful […]
Podcast Episodes for Diving Deeper into AI
Despite occasional silicon-valley-venture-capital-frosting that sticks in my craw1, I’ve been really enjoying the Latent Space AI engineering podcasts. There is technical stuff that’s beyond what I can understand at times but the majority of it is understandable, adds interesting depth to my AI knowledge, and has led to me to interesting things outside of AI. […]