This essay identifies three defining burdens of modern life: uncertainty, elaboration, and overload. It argues that advances in AI, especially super intelligence, can help lift them. We spend immense time verifying details, filling in vague instructions, and sifting through endless information. These efforts consume energy and focus, leaving little room for creativity or human connection. Super-intelligent systems could take on the tasks of cross-checking, expanding vague ideas, and filtering noise, allowing us to shift from reactive labor to higher-value thinking. Rather than being crushed by complexity, we could move toward a future where focus, clarity, and imagination take the lead.

This essay explores how AI is poised to transform lifelong learning and workplace assessment. As knowledge decays faster across industries, traditional credentials no longer guarantee current expertise. In their place, AI-enabled conversations will offer continuous, adaptive evaluations that probe understanding, identify gaps, and promote real-time growth. These dynamic assessments will reward those who stay curious and actively sharpen their skills while exposing those who rely on outdated knowledge or past accomplishments. For managers, this shift means moving beyond resumes and degrees toward fostering teams built on real, demonstrated capability. In the future, learning will not be an event. It will be a way of working.

This essay reimagines how construction workers develop expertise in a world shaped by AI. Learning no longer depends on outdated credentials or formal classrooms. Instead, it becomes a daily habit, starting with a conversation in the truck at 6:15 AM and continuing through curated videos at night. The AI knows each worker’s tasks, challenges, and learning pace, offering guidance that is practical, relevant, and ongoing. Growth is measured in real time, based on applied knowledge, not past certificates. In this environment, curiosity and consistency matter most. Workers who keep learning every day will lead the future of construction, one smart conversation at a time.

This reflection explores the tension between optimizing for status and optimizing for happiness. Early career paths often center on climbing professional hierarchies, chasing prestige, or accumulating wealth. But over time, the value of internal fulfillment becomes clearer. Success, when defined by external markers, can sometimes come at the cost of health, relationships, or peace of mind. Happiness, rooted in personal meaning and connection, may not earn recognition but can offer deeper satisfaction. The ideal balance is not fixed. It shifts with age, experience, and changing priorities. A meaningful life is shaped by knowing when to reach and when to rest, and understanding that fulfillment is personal, not prescribed.

Construction is a business of complexity coordination. Every task, resource, and client moves through a life cycle that demands constant synchronization. Success depends on aligning schedules, managing equipment, adapting to weather, and maintaining strong client relationships, all while staying profitable. A custom SaaS platform makes this complexity visible, enabling real-time tracking and proactive decision-making. For investors, the opportunity lies in combining essential field services with software-driven efficiency. This integrated model delivers both operational control and capital resilience. It is not just about building, it is about orchestrating motion, minimizing friction, and turning complexity into a competitive advantage.

Outside of the nuclear launch codes, there’s never been a set of numbers that have more power over the world than the daily publication of Cases, Deaths, and Trends (CDT).

Like a giant inflatable blivet, they pumped fifty billion tons a year into it for decades. Eventually, it started pressing down on our oceans, causing mountains of water to surge onto the land; coastlines moved miles inward, lowlands flooded, weather patterns flipped, oceans acidified, fresh water became scarce, and entire species relocated or died off. The blivet was full.

Humanity ultimately adapted. However, the years preceding the Great Adaptation were horrifying: food supplies collapsed, billions of refugees clogged the borders of upland countries, and all life everywhere changed forever. That is, except for The Last Chog.

Radicalization ceases to be useful, works against humanity, and ruins lives when it leads to violence, violent extremism, and politically motivated assholism. While a microdose of radicalization may be okay, any more than that is detrimental to your future. You should be able to identify, question, and denormalize radicalizing ideas and practices. As such, here are some thoughts to consider:

The next time you see a five hundred pound rock in a stone wall, ask yourself, how it got there? White farmers, their bull strong sons, and donkeys didn’t move all those rocks. Now ask yourself who benefited? Fields were cleared, walls were built, crops were harvested, and four generations later the land was sold to Walmart.

Insulting statements that attract likes and followers are truly antithetical to building a foundation of genuine power that can affect change. There’s nothing less powerful than a flock of bleating sheep. Imagine spending two years becoming a political shepherd, posting fresh veg to your base, firing up the troops, and bathing in dopamine only to realize you're not an influencer, you're a mook. History will show, it’s all so pointless.

Your fightline is an exact time each day, 10:00 AM for example, when you ask yourself these questions: “Did I win yesterday?” and “How can I win today?”. More specifically, “What do I need to do over the next twenty-four hours to be healthier than the last twenty-four hours?”

The Lego Recycling Machine is a fun, relatable, and fictional story that adults can use to teach children how technology and circular thinking will inspire the earth-friendly product designs of the future.

There are a lot of similarities between ‘the war on tobacco’ and ‘the war on climate change’: unhealthy consequences that [will] span generations, entrenched big-money interests, disinformation warfare, inept initial government responses, cultural trends, and more. What’s missing from the war on climate change? Cigarettes.

I created this guide to help our children navigate the constant pull of social media, Netflix, video games, and other forms of what I call “shallow entertainment”.