For almost a year, I have been crafting and re-crafting a project I call The Fake Story of Music. It has been stuck in its present state for more than half of that time, and there’s so much m…| Never Down, Always Up
In my town, a surefire way to make everyone mad at you is to suggest that we consider merging with the much larger town that completely surrounds us. But I can’t resist.| Never Down, Always Up
After finishing Alice In Chains: The Untold Story, I’ve been on a real AIC kick, which led me back to their Unplugged performance of Down In A Hole. And man, what a masterpiece.| Never Down, Always Up
Seeing Kendrick Lamar’s Superbowl Halftime show brought me back to the first time a Kendrick performance blew my mind.| Never Down, Always Up
A few months back, I saw Bruce Springsteen for the fifth time in 15 years. I’m still trying to figure out how to think about his music. But when I see something that other people are into and…| Never Down, Always Up
In the months after the passing of my next door neighbor, I've realized that grief is different when you're used to someone's presence and proximity.| Never Down, Always Up
It's interesting to see scientific people categorically reject the notion that LLMs "think". People write them off as "fancy autocomplete" or regurgitating their source material, and conclude that they do something categorically different than what humans can do. I think that's wrong.| Never Down, Always Up
Intersectionality, like many academic sociological terms, is often misunderstood and misrepresented in popular discourse. But I found a simple way to approach it by thinking about it with my math b…| Never Down, Always Up
Six years ago, I wrote "Is GraphQL The Future?" We can now confidently say that the answer is "no", but I'm still very proud of that piece, and I think I was right about a lot of other things. What happened to GraphQL?| Never Down, Always Up
I just learned that I’ve been accepted to the Empire State Building Run-Up for the first time. Believe it or not, this is almost as exciting to me as getting picked for Jeopardy. My history w…| Never Down, Always Up
I’m proposing HyphenTech as the unifying term behind industry-specific tech categories, such as FinTech, MusicTech, and PropTech. HyphenTech companies find their edge in existing markets by a…| Never Down, Always Up
