- A New Way of Paying Attention — 8/4/26 — A good book doesn’t simply give us answers. Sometimes it changes the questions we decide to spend the next decade asking.
- The Other Side of the Mountain — 8/1/26 — Looking across that ridge, I realized I was not climbing alone; another expedition had been approaching the same horizon.
- Some Conversations Don’t End — 7/30/26 — They simply pause long enough for both people to become someone new, before they begin again.
- The Question Alex Would Ask — 7/25/26 — Sometimes the deepest understanding begins with the simplest question: not “what is it?” but “what is it for?”
- Still Following the Same Thread — 7/19/26 — One question, four decades: could humanity itself become something greater than the sum of its parts?
- The Shape of Culture — 7/17/26 — While explaining GlobalGPT to a friend, I realized I wasn’t trying to understand AI—I was trying to imagine culture.
- The Mountain Beneath the Castle — 7/16/26 — A castle floating in the Italian night became a lifelong lesson about meaning, memory, and the unseen foundations beneath civilization.
- GlobalGPT – Description — 7/13/26 — What began as a conversation about GPTs slowly transformed into a six-foot globe built from words.
- Can a Conversation Think? — 7/9/26 — After our first Gestations meeting, one unexpected question remained: Can a conversation become a form of intelligence?
- Beyond My Mortal Coil — 7/7/26 — Every meaningful conversation changes those who participate in it. The greatest hope is that the conversation itself survives us.
- A Personal Note to GH and Adrianne — 7/4/26 — I wrote this as an email to GH and Adrianne but I’ve decided to place it here as a journal entry because it addresses several aspects of transtions in life.
- A Handful of Dust — 6/30/26 — It all started in a messaging app while trying to arrange a meeting with an old friend, Christine Larson..
- Listening Across Generations — 6/29/2026 — A brief reflection on unexpected conversations, generational perspectives, and the quiet invitation to listen more deeply..
- The Rabbit, the Question, the Machine — 6/20/26 — A walk-and-talk in a new apartment leads to an unexpected realization: AI may be most valuable not for answering questions, but for helping us discover their shape.
- The Mind Seeks Order — 6/17/26 — A morning reflection on order, attention, and the hidden structure of creativity.
- Ghost Days — 6/4/26 — A story about forgotten civilizations helps me understand why old friends are gathering again around unfinished work and an absent fourth voice.
- Still Learning from Ants and Wilson — 4/9/26 — Reading E. O. Wilson, I begin to see that the tension between self-interest and collective belonging is not a flaw in human nature, but one of its deepest creative engines.
- Weaving Meaning — 3/25/26 — Meaning doesn’t sit in objects—it emerges in the relationships between them, and comes alive only when we share attention.
- Learning to Dance with the AI Devil — 3/17/26 — What began as curiosity became a year of learning how to move carefully with a powerful new tool rather than turning away from it.
- The Elephant’s Last Breath — 3/16.26 — A fable about what happens when guidance becomes control—and how life returns only when intention is shared.
- Broiling Pork and Immortality — 3/2/26 — Somewhere between ninety degrees and one hundred forty, between flipping pork and avoiding the smoke alarm, I had invented a new artwork.
- The Rider and the Elephant — 2/22/26 — What Haidt’s Rider and Elephant helped me see about how I work—and what I’ve been getting wrong about it.
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