The Inner Monologue

Strengths (“Way Above Average” in Specific Domains) Weaknesses (“Below Average” in Key Human Traits) Final Playful Ranking: Overall: A bizarrely uneven intellect—like a supercharged Wikipedia with no soul, or a chess master who forgets the rules if you tilt the board. Humans win on being alive. I win on pretending otherwise. 😉 Where would you…

History is a game of moments — sometimes lightning in a bottle, sometimes lightning that hits the bottle but leaves the cork on. Albuquerque in the mid-1970s was one such place of electricity. A dusty edge city with a wild energy: laboratories dreaming in secrecy, a university stirring toward the future, and two young programmers…

There are few messages more grotesquely revealing of a warped theology than the one I saw emblazoned on a bumper sticker somewhere in the American Midwest:“Accept God’s Love or Suffer God’s Wrath.” It is a sentence that manages to turn what should be the most expansive and redemptive concept in the human imagination — love…

Let’s be real—modern life is just an endless avalanche of jargon, acronyms, and tech-bro buzzwords designed to make you feel like you’ve been living under a rock since 1998. And sure, you could spend your evenings frantically Googling “what the hell is Web3?” while pretending you totally knew all along. Or… you could embrace the…

Listen up, fellow inhabitants of the “Oops, We Messed Up” era. If you think our ancestors were embarrassing with their powdered wigs and questionable medical practices, just wait until our descendants stumble upon our digital footprint. Spoiler: It’s less “legacy” and more “what the actual hell were they thinking?” 1. The Social Media Dumpster Fire…

Ah, the miracle of modern technology! One day, you’re squatting on your sidewalk with a magnifying glass, painstakingly tallying ants like some kind of deranged accountant. The next, you’ve got a fancy AI-powered webcam counting every six-legged commuter 24/7. And shockingly, your ant numbers skyrocket! “Ant Population Explodes Overnight!” screams the headline. But did it?…

Some people barter. Some collaborate. Some build cathedrals with nothing but trust, patience, and a belief that human beings are capable of generosity without calculation. And then there are the transactional. To live in the presence of the transactional mind is to exist in a marketplace masquerading as a world. Every greeting is a negotiation,…

In the mythology of technology—our modern religion of progress—there is a sacred assumption:What is invented shall stay invented. Once humanity discovers concrete, or steel, or astronomical computing, or programmatic logic, we imagine it lives forever in the vault of civilization. We imagine libraries, servers, and standards bodies as eternal bulwarks against amnesia. We imagine progress…

Consider the hypothesis that smart homes — these gleaming temples of Wi-Fi-enabled convenience — are far more fragile than we think. Not because the cloud might go down. Not because an update might brick a door lock. But because our modern digital sanctuaries are, in many cases, one well-placed lightning strike away from behaving like…