As Spock would say, “Fascinating”. __________ Dominick GiuffridaWhy Google, Bezos, and Musk all agree on the next infrastructure trade. The solution to the AI energy crisis isn’t on Earth. For years, the idea of data centres in space was dismissed as sci-fi. In the last week, it became the new…

Learning never gets old! Even when it is old! “This material can heal itself over thousands of years, it is reactive, and it is highly dynamic. It has survived earthquakes and volcanoes. It has endured under the sea and survived degradation from the elements. We don’t want to completely copy…

Does it matter? More than you know. You may not know how it ends. But this is how it begins.  SystemOrEcosystem.com See post on LinkedIn

Barack, I can tell you, that is EXACTLY right. Thanks for saying the “secret” part out loud! __________ César Solís The biggest lie in professional life is that “some rooms aren’t for you.” Obama said it best — once you actually sit at those tables, you notice quickly… The people…

Affordability? Where did it go? COMPOUNDING. These two charts are of the same thing, one spot rate, and the other the compounding effect. Affordability is a function of the relentless mathematical concept of “compounding.” Stabilization of the RATE does not mean prices go down; they simply grow far more slowly…

Apparently, AI thinks so little of humans that great writing must have been plagiarized from AI! __________ Linas Beliūnas Epic: an AI detector just flagged the 1776 Declaration of Independence as 99.99% AI-written 👏😂 Either the AI detector doesn’t work, or the Founding Fathers were time-travelling prompt engineers… And the wildest…

Forbes latest “wealthiest person on earth“ list. I know we all wake up every morning wondering about the latest rankings. Sort of like college football. According to IMF estimates for 2025, Vietnam’s GDP was projected at roughly $484.7 billion, meaning Musk’s personal fortune surpassed the entire economic output of the…

Here’s the thing about broadcasting plans? Maybe it’s intentional, but doesn’t it speed up response times by adversaries? Do we change the timeline of the “forcing function” of conflict by advertising? __________ Justin Nerdrum Pentagon pivots to mass drone production. 340,000 units by 2028. Attritable beats exquisite as global powers…

About the time you think we’ve pressed up against “the boundaries of what’s possible,” shhhhhh. The average home internet speed in the US is around 200 megabits per second. This is over 5 MILLION times faster. We’re talking about transferring the entire contents of the Library of Congress in a…

Stanford AI degree material, for those who will do the work… __________ Ashley Nicholson The $200,000 Stanford AI degree just became worth a lot less.Not because the education isn’t world-class: Because Stanford just released all their flagship AI and Machine Learning courses for free on YouTube. This changes everything about…

One has to start somewhere, but this attempt to lockdown rare earth minerals for the US and the West, is more leverage than practical, at this point. This whole bit of discovery, mining, and refining, even without regulations (and that doesn’t happen), takes a very long time to bring to…

Frank Gehry, the rebel, dead at 96. I can’t think of another name that came up more often in the Harvard Graduate School of Design, than Gehry. Not even my childhood hero, Frank Lloyd Wright. From his early remodeled Santa Monica house onward, neighbors and critics described his work as…

Affordability? Where did it go? COMPOUNDING. Affordability is a function of the relentless mathematical concept of “compounding.” Stabilization of the RATE does not mean prices go down; they simply grow far more slowly from a higher, more painful baseline. Here is the actual math. Compounding Cost of a $100 Market…

Joe Rogan: “Christianity in particular is the most fascinating to me… Jesus somehow or another had the best planfor how human beings should interact.” To the men and women—saints, skeptics, engineers, executives, entrepreneurs, young seekers, disillusioned church kids, atheists with integrity, believers with bruised faith—who have walked, strived, challenged the status…

True? “All truth passes through three stages: first, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as self-evident.” — Arthur Schopenhauer “One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea… Naturally, therefore, common men hate a new idea, and are…

December 1, 1955. Seventy years ago today. Montgomery, Alabama. Rosa Parks dared to help America find its conscience. And for some, it’s heart. On a Thursday evening in Montgomery, Alabama, Rosa Parks boarded the Cleveland Avenue bus to head home from her job at a department store. She sat in…

Agendas quickly creep into so-called science, don’t they? And, though the same types of flaws were found in Darwin‘s other more famous works, it’s all still taught in schools as “absolute fact,” via no alternative “theories” being offered with intelligent presentation and the supporting evidence. __________ Dimitrios A. Karras In…

A Brain Doesn’t Age—It Shape-Shifts. Your brain is a 5-Movement Symphony, 5-Collosal tidal waves redrawing the coastline of who you are: Birth to age 9-32-66-83-100. (ish) New Research Maps 5 Hidden “Epochs” of Human Wiring. Most people think the brain changes gradually over time… but a new 2025 Nature Communications…

Will AI destroy jobs? Overall, no. Unevenly? Absolutely. It was 1938, and the pain of the Great Depression was still very real. Unemployment in the US was around 20%. Everyone was worried about jobs. In 1930, the prominent British economist John Maynard Keynes had warned that we were “being afflicted…

“Leroy Was Here” — ingenious Pantheon engraved words of wisdom, eh?! Definitely lacking the sophistication of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. The “Inscription” on the Pantheon, courtesy of the Roman Caesars, demonstrates the obvious difference between brilliant Greek philosophers, and Rome’s engineers and soldiers. Nothing against engineers, since I are one. 😎…

Hopefully, these will cost $10,000 each, to teenagers. __________ Rinor RestelicaMicro-drones are the next surveillance leap. Some are already the size of insects, others sit in your palm, and they’re getting harder to notice every year. What used to feel like a movie prop is now standard tech. The real…

So, you’ve known CPU and sort-of GPU since the days of your TI-99/4A, TRS80, and Commodore 64. But what is a TPU, that’s going to save the world? 1. CPU (Central Processing Unit)The GeneralistThe CPU is the “conductor” of the orchestra. It is designed to be versatile and handle a…

Hey, I was just a “hod carrier” when I was young, and just an engineer in undergrad, and only taught city-building and the Built Environment at Harvard Grad School, but something looks wrong here. I could be wrong. The mix seems more like they poured what they cleaned out of…

Mapping human brain neurons, 100 trillion connections: the same powerful potential as mapping the human genome has had. Outstanding.  The mapping of the human genome has revolutionized modern medicine and unleashed an era of precision healthcare—making “one-size-fits-all” treatment a relic of the past. What Has Changed Thanks to the Human…

I’m not sure this is exactly the perfect example, but disruption from norms and expectations is an important part of life that’s truly Life! __________ Jesse Cole  Our next biggest test starts tonight. The Banana Ball Player Draft. We are disrupting ourselves again. With the launch of the Banana Ball…

George Washington inspiring his troops, motivating them for the win over their metric oppressors! __________ Michal Gula When somebody is trying to convince you, that 360 video is a perfect alternative to 3D scanning. 🤣 See post on LinkedIn

If you can describe it with buzz-words… it’s just a “me too“. __________ Jimmy Acton Peter Thiel once said something every founder should hear: “Buzzwords are a tell, like in poker, that the company is bluffing and undifferentiated.” He added: “If you hear the words ‘big data’ or ‘cloud computing’,…

When is a slllllow brain better than a fast brain? Read on! Read article See post on LinkedIn

Apparently, Nature itself makes plastic-like polymers: • Amber (fossilized tree resin) is a natural thermoplastic. • Cutin, suberin, and sporopollenin in plants are durable, long-chain organic polymers. • Algae and bacteria can produce polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) — biodegradable plastics. These could survive in sediments — and superficially resemble modern synthetic plastics. But, not all…

“E=mc^2 … The most powerful truths are often the simplest.” -anonymous location, anonymous well-known leaders and authors meeting, anonymous speaker. Discussion of System vs Ecosystem. Part 1. Audio extended: https://lnkd.in/eq_Q7euq See post on LinkedIn

Regardless of your education, background, or race, you can accomplish anything you’re willing to pay the price for. Honestly, quit complaining and quit hiding your talent and ideas, and quit excusing. The world is never going to be fair, and we all can see that clearly. And 99% of us…

Current quantum computing installations require temperatures close to absolute zero, colder than deep space, to function. 460° below zero Fahrenheit, -273° C. $3 million for the cooling apparatus, $20,000 per year in electricity to keep the chill on the quantum computer, and a few six figure incomes hovering around to…

What would be really great is if creative and actual Solutions make their way into the comment section of posts like this. And if actual implementation of said Solutions would take place in the world around us. How fun and inspiring that would be! More often, however, the complaints are…

AI isn’t an intelligence but a giant stomach. Agree or disagree? __________ Stephen Klein THE INTERNET IS EATING ITSELFThe Internet Is Now 52% AI-Generated ContentAnd It’s Training On Itself New research just dropped numbers that should terrify anyone who cares about truth: **52% of all internet content is now AI-generated.**¹In…

No longer “who is coming“ but “what is coming?” 🙂 __________ Ailar Barns This week, I had the opportunity to observe self-driving Model Ys rolling off the line—solo. No keys, no driver, just vibes. 🚗💨In quality assurance, FSD proves QA isn’t just a gatekeeper—it’s the unsung hero keeping robots from going…

Maybe we all slow down, and take stock that we don’t always know what we think we know? Burt Myers, the inventor of Rock-em Sock-em Robots and Lite-Brite, passes today at age 99. Four children, six grandchildren, six great grandchildren, and married 50 years until his dear wife passed away.…

First sleep, then second sleep. First snack, second snack, third snack. Everything used to have a name. Neck and back problems from sleeping like this were the stuff of legends. __________ Craig PearceContinuous sleep is a modern habit, not an evolutionary constant, which helps explain why many of us still…

No more smartphones? At first I thought that sounded like a good thing! But then…Uh-oh. 🙂 __________ Linas Beliūnas Elon Musk just predicted the end of the smartphone 😳 “In 5-6 years, we won’t have phones in the traditional sense. What we call a phone will really be an AI edge…

Did the Interstellar Aliens do both this AND the pyramids? Or maybe the West isn’t quite as ingenious as early in human history, comparitively, as we thought we were? 🙂 It is hard to digest the idea that there is always some neighbor smarter, faster, better than we are. With…

Cra-cra Golfer. A Ryder Cup legend, Spaniard Seve Ballesteros (1957–2011) turned his only club, a 3-iron on the beaches of Pedreña, into a dazzling professional career with 50 European Tour victories and five majors, including three Open Championships and two Masters titles. Renowned for his charismatic leadership, Ballesteros redefined European…

The beauty of a Put Option instead of a Short… The perfect application of said distinction. __________ Linas Beliūnas The Big Short is back: Michael Burry, the man who bet against the 2008 housing bubble, is now betting against the AI boom 😳 Here’s what just dropped in his latest SEC…

Different interests amongst young people on campus has a long and storied history. I wonder, fast-forward, which will build quality productive successful lives? It’s still a toss-up, with only this snapshot of the moment. Change is hard. But always possible. See post on LinkedIn

Thus the genius of acquiring new (and repatriating) manufacturing jobs and pharmaceutical national security. It takes time, but the process is started… Over the next five years, companies have publicly promised more than $1.5 trillion in manufacturing investments in the United States, as tracked by industry sources in 2025. This…

They should have considered my King Solomon solution: cut the time zone in half! Don’t give up yet! In the 119th Congress (2025–2026), the attempt to end “spring ahead, fall behind“ time zones was re-introduced as the Sunshine Protection Act of 2025 (House Bill H.R. 139 in the House and…

This is a very interesting take on why AI gobbles up excessive power, making the case that it does not need to do so. __________ Christian Schmidt Why do GPUs burn 10,000x more energy than they should for generative AI? Because we built algorithms to fit hardware—not the other way…

100 months ago in DC. Zoom in. Who told us everyone is a racist and it’s always been that way!? This is around the corner from my house in Navy Yard, DC. Instead of following the whiff of hatred and bile like animals, being manipulated by those around us for…

Systems Engineering. Two types of neurons in the skin may be particularly important for how the brain interprets social contact between people, according to a new study led by Linköping University. Systems Engineering. I love this field, as it relates to life itself, spiritual, religion (not the same thing), physical,…

The loudest, most passionate voices — how reliable are they? Society and culture, wars and racism and reactions are often built around things that never happened, things never said, and reactions to perceived feelings that weren’t even there. The “Mandela Effect” is the madness of crowds and the weakness and…

ChatGPT and AI wild “Data Center” growth has many advantages, AND consequences, as seen in the video. Multiplied this year alone times 125. The explosive surge in data center construction is reshaping America’s digital infrastructure at an unprecedented scale. In 2025, U.S. data center construction spending shattered records, topping $14…

This guy is way better! I had some early luck in life. At 10 I had a “Patent Pending” and then at 17 invented an Electronic “face the class” Blackboard replacement of the Stone Age chalk and slate, and dusty erasers. The funny part of that later one is that…