An incredible AI use case opportunity: FedEx. FedEx moves over 16 million packages a day across 220 countries. Every scan, route change, and failed delivery attempt generates data. To be precise, two petabytes of it. Daily. For 50 years, the company’s advantage was physical and operational, with 700 aircraft, 200,000+…

What happens to a person who puts down their Smart Phone? They finally return to being Smart. The researcher’s final conclusion was blunt: “He returned to baseline.” He returned to life.  A cognitive scientist who interviewed him said the shocking part wasn’t calmness – it was the return of deep-time…

I am very much looking forward to returning to my undergrad alma mater, #RoseHulman Institute of Technology,Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology for their Capstone Project presentations. Let’s Go! https://lnkd.in/euDWXvXH See post on LinkedIn

“The stones used to stone the prophets are later used to build altars honoring those same prophets.” -Jeff Bezos (paraphrased from Luke 11, Matthew 23, and Jeff) Systems often sanitize and celebrate what they once resisted and demonized. Once the System is back in control, once the System leaders’ pride,…

As stated in this attached post, observing is not the same as understanding. The tree of knowledge wants to control, duplicate, and dictate. The tree of life we can only observe, yield, and cooperate.  After all of these years of research and study and technology, we still must admit that…

Former Nebraska US Senator, Ben Sasse, discussing SystemOrEcosystem.com, without actively realizing it (probably). He is in a difficult spot with pancreatic cancer right now. See post on LinkedIn

Lucidity is often the byproduct of extreme friction.In 1967, a single dive into the Chesapeake Bay introduced an irreversible inertia into Joni Eareckson Tada’s life. A paralyzed body at 17 wasn’t just a physical crisis; it was a systemic one. It forced a choice: succumb to the gravity of despair…

This finance analogy bears a strong resemblance to the partial-illusion of system, versus the down-deep cards on the table, ready-for-change reality of ecosystem… SystemOrEcosystem.com __________ Oana Labes, MBA, CPA EBITDA is the highlight reel.Cash flow is the game tape. This isn’t a technicality.It’s the most important distinction in finance. 📌 Join me…

You’re not a broken machine to be fixed, engineered, and optimized. Most people try to fix their lives with endless “New Year’s Resolutions.” But, restored and treasured Life in the hands of the Artist, the Potter is your Intended future. Two Japanese ideas insightfully reveal the distinction: Kintsugi repairs what’s…

Bojangles is known for their Hick Food. But it looks like they get the the last laugh, or maybe the first Hee-haw! Bojangles is the FIRST of half a dozen major fast-food chains to have meaningful AI drive-thru deployments (pilot → scaled rollout). “Times, they are a’changin.” If Bob Dylan…

Crazy. Make a note of this. This is the future of AI. Or better put, the next future of AI, just before the one after that. Most people still use AI like a vending machine: Ask question.Get answer.Forget everything.Repeat tomorrow. Balakrishnan is using it like infrastructure 🧠 A system that remembers.Synthesizes.Recalls…

Blinded by the light? As a scientist, this is anecdotal. Still, this is the dramatic place where research dollar allocations and velocity are increased. That is, unless K Street lobbyist dollars to, and around, “lawmakers” impede this sort of research.  The frequent problem with professional clergy-lawmakers is that they are…

The current AI market is split into two distinct financial camps: the companies building the physical infrastructure and the companies developing the actual AI models. Infrastructure giants like NVIDIA, Microsoft, and Google are reporting record-breaking revenues because everyone is buying their chips and cloud services. However, these companies are also…

Economies, like egos, are certainly fragile and complicated things! __________ Alvin Foo Japan was absolutely unstoppable in the 1980s Walkmans, VHS players, Sony TVs, and Honda cars were everywhere. Japan had become the world’s factory. The US was in panic mode, smashing Japanese cars, slapping tariffs, and starting trade wars.…

SystemOrEcosystem.com — Everyone who thinks a little bit… can see it! But, some have different motives I guess. See post on LinkedIn

Before the industrial revolution in “early America” small business is all that existed. “Mom and pop” retail, the inn and restaurant hospitality industry, “manufacturing,” before large corporations and big government, nearly 100% of “jobs” were created by entrepreneurship and small business.  To this day, the “best” economy and certainly the…

A bumper sticker, a slogan, a quote from Jesus with someone’s uninterrupted commentary for an hour or two a week… is not the same as walking out His life together, as He demonstrated, proclaimed, and enabled. ToGetHer, His Bride. The Second Adam. The meaning of the Garden and the intention…

Every journey of life is determined by what is in our hearts: how malleable—or how insipid and vapid—we decide, or even condescend, to become. __________ A Journey of 26.2 Miles Begins…in the Heart Daniel Zeigler Christian novelist at Pyrotechnic Books April 24, 2026 When Czech distance runner Emil Zápotek stepped…

Everyone “plays the fool” through the course of their lifetime. But only an actual fool neglects to, or refuses to, learn from it. Not revenge, self-pity, envy, anger, depression. Those are poison to the soul. Growth. Wisdom. Poise. Character. See post on LinkedIn

Plug-n-chug equations without the actual understanding of WHY. In Engineering School, it was such a “temptation” for even great students.  What other areas of life do many take the comfortable well-worn path, instead of exerting some effort and courage to understand and go deep? Hmmmm. __________ Alok Jain Trigonometry was…

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Unless you’ve been in a position that is supposed to be respected, you would not believe how hard it is to be humble, and to change! But it still needs to happen. The world doesn’t have the luxury any longer of being wrong—just to protect the program, the padre, and…

Almost as good UFC on the White House lawn… https://lnkd.in/eEGmX4vD __________ And, again… happy 250! https://youtu.be/VJ62EfUKI3w See post on LinkedIn

Sometimes an impossible “odd event” fortifies the future—recalled during dark days to sustain us. Remember. • Anthony Hopkins found the rare novel he’d searched all over London for—discarded on a park bench. The author’s own stolen, annotated copy.• Viktor Frankl, agonizing over whether to flee the Nazis, found a marble…

The problem with politics, war, arguments in family or workplace or religion… and now in the Strait of Hormuz: See post on LinkedIn

Thanks to Igor Vaisman and Josh Peters for a little bit of Quantum Humor. But, the joke just changed because we attempted to observe it. The Strait is “entangled” I measure, until superposition collapses on the punchline? See post on LinkedIn

Lucidity. How is it even POSSIBLE to be a world-class genius, a celebrated leader, a religious or scientific scholar—yet remain fundamentally blind to obvious truth? We often think about lucidity as something you either have or you don’t. You see obvious truths, or you don’t. You’re honest, or you’re a…

“Mel Gibson” is a pretty smart dude, apparently. And, “gotta love the new hairdo.“  I “think” he is describing a pilot wave as a weather map — useful for predicting what happens, but not an actual physical thing causing the weather.  Bohm’s theory makes the mistake of treating the map…

Sometimes creating “discomfort” with the status quo, as Jesus did in his day, is a good thing. But also it can get you killed. As he also demonstrated. History is filled with books and people that have either torn — or healed — society. “Status quo” and “just carrying on”…

So many questions we never ask, because of the golden rule: “They who have the gold, rule” or “those who want the gold most, rule.“ There is just no fixing this present age. Do we need more rules in order to outrun the oncoming Entropic degradation and chaos? Nah. That’s…

In MMA, Mixed Martial Arts training, they tell you “It is better to be on Trial by Twelve (a court jury, for potentially breaking the law by defending yourself), than carried out by Six (pallbearers, carrying your casket).” There was a common sense solution here, such as ramming the gate…

Well-said! __________ Dr. Michael Meneghini Everything amazing was once thought impossible.They told me building a vertically integrated, physician-owned orthopedic practice was impossible. They were right. It had never been done at scale.But “never been done” is not the same as impossible. Most people confuse the two. When we built the Indiana Orthopedic…

Can you imagine an entrepreneurial venture more fun than this?! ResponsiblySourced.com EthicallySourced.comPanjshirValleyEmeralds.com Alexander Stufflebeam, FSA, CERA Bryan Rush Bearden Andrew Roberts Bryce Wylie Elle Hill Dr. Adib Farhadi Miq Torrente Lisa Koenigsberg, John Lenker, Dr. Dan Zeigler aka Daniel Zeigler, the Amazing Trusted Inc development and engineering team — and so many more brilliant partners — built history’s most technologically savvy…

Nightbirde, the stage name of Jane Marczewski (1990–2022), was an American singer-songwriter who became a global symbol of hope and resilience after her appearance on America’s Got Talent (AGT) in 2021. During her audition, Jane shared her battle with metastatic cancer, revealing she had only a 2% chance of survival…

I think Shaquille O’Neal is probably a better television commentator, but this guy is an inch taller and can make a free throw! __________ Rinor Restelica Toyota just put a 7’2” humanoid on the court. It is called the CUE7. A wheeled humanoid built for pure precision.• 7’2” height• 74…

A Lion chasing a Bear. The Bear is correct. An ego is deadly — for anyone. __________ Bear Grylls The Most Dangerous Thing in the Wild Isn’t a Snake. It’s Your Ego. I’ve spent alot of time in some of the most hostile environments on earth. Jungles, deserts, mountains, frozen…

Upton Sinclair, 1934:“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”  Nietzsche: “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed.” And, “Few serve truth, in truth, because — only few have the pure…

If I can get the calendar date to work, I’ll be accepting the invitation to the “Howard University School of Law Golf & Spades Tournament.” Join me on June 1. While I haven’t played Spades in decades, I will probably be “accidentally” better at Spades, than at my diminishing golf…

Change is harrrrrrrd. Humans don’t do it easily, or gracefully. NIMBY.com BeHisChange.com See post on LinkedIn

It’s easy to be entertained by, even inspired by, enhancements to the Turtle-System! But given time, how does he eat or mate or go to the loo? I guess we just need more and more enhancements! Or… we can rethink whether this is just a temporary event for fun, or,…

The science: A 10,000 pound tree doesn’t come from dirt. Experiments have proven this. You, and a 10,000 pound tree, are from “thin air“ and electromagnetic energy. Visible mass from an invisible source and mechanism. The visible from the invisible. The rabbit hole gets deeper and deeper, the breadcrumbs lead…

The GREAT AWAKENING movie. Catch it while it’s still on. You won’t regret it. Eyes open, lives change, “onion skin layers” are shed. Little by little as they often are. Tears as I write this. “Aristotle and Plato can tell you what virtue is, but they cannot give you the…

“The test of Christianity isn’t only loving Jesus. It’s also loving Judas.” -KB, Rapper, Artist. @KB HGA The Ecosystem. Not “who is right,” or tweaking and improving the system. Love. The Ecosystem either contributes to each others’ protection and betterment, from the top of the tallest mountain to the deepest…

I don’t like or eat vegetables, but War is not the excuse I’d have been looking for to avoid vegetables. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, comprising Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Oman, has long-standing reputation as a net exporter of energy and importer…

Hope IS a Strategy. We’re all messy, if we’re honest. Why is someone else’s mess worse than ours? Would we want others to give up hope, to give up trying to offer us hope? BeHisChange.com See post on LinkedIn

So is the new chant, “AI! AI! AI!“? https://lnkd.in/gYRR3SpA __________ Yogesh B. One of the most iconic moments in tech history occurred when former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer took the stage at a developer conference in the early 2000s, passionately chanting “Developers! Developers! Developers!” while sweating profusely and energizing the…

DYK? Christianity is the only world religion where religious titles are forbidden. Weird, but I’ve spoken to PhD‘s and ThD‘s and seminary superstars that don’t know this (or won’t obey Jesus in this matter). “They love to be called by men, ‘Rabbi, Rabbi.’ But you, do not be called ‘Rabbi’;…

See you in Prague? __________ Michal Gula 4D BIM visualizations are dead 👀This is AI, but business case is absolutely clear to me here 👀 4D BIM visualizations of construction processes have been very helpful so far for understanding of the process and bringing more stakeholders to the table. But important part…

“Climate change“ is certainly not “theoretical“ in the financial world and CapEx strategy. The climate has changed. In the U.S., the strongest CapEx boom was the 1994–2000 period, with the peak concentrated in the late 1990s. Why? The AI boom may provide similar impetus to the late 1900’s “Internet” explosion,…

Playing by the rules of ‘tradition’ is often overrated. The ‘old’ and ‘accepted’ are not automatically better, that’s for sure. That’s how humans have gotten into so many messes. ”The Whisper Game.” https://lnkd.in/gNKF-wQF We’ve often stopped thinking, and we kill those who insist we try to think. https://lnkd.in/gYVkVT-H See post on…