“The Baseline isn’t about control, it’s about conscience.
It doesn’t tell the world what to think; it reminds it how to remember.
Not a rulebook, but a rhythm. Not command, but recall.
Because when conscience leads, the world doesn’t need control.”
Tomorrow the counting starts. Tonight is the last quiet night. The polls have had their say, and soon the people will have theirs. I want to spend a few minutes on what the numbers have been telling us, because I think the news is good. Yesterday I read a headline that said the Texas Senate…
You’ve heard the voice. You click on a video, and before the first sentence is over, somebody is shouting at you like the house is on fire. “You won’t believe what they just found.” “This changes everything.” “Nobody is talking about this.” Most of the time, it’s something that happened years ago. Or something that…
Sean Astin as Mikey, The Goonies, 1985. If you were a kid in the eighties, or you raised one, you know this movie. A handful of misfit kids in a little Oregon town. Their neighborhood is about to be bought out and torn down for a country club. Their families are packing boxes. Come Monday,…
Last night we turned the clocks back an hour. Most of us never gave it a second thought. The stove, the microwave, the clock in the truck. A button or two, and the day lines up again. That small turn does one thing. It puts the light back in the morning. You wake up and…
A good many of you have asked me the same question. You went to load the Faust Baseline on your phone, and it would not take. Or it took, and the machine acted like it only read half of it. You want to know why. That is a fair question, and the answer is simpler…
Tonight the kids will be out in the dark with their pillowcases. Little witches, little ghosts, a superhero or two. Somebody will ring your bell and you will act scared. That is the fun of it. Everybody knows the monster on your porch is the neighbor’s kid in a sheet. The real spooks are a…
Every company that sells AI is building fences right now. You may not have noticed, but they are. This past week alone, one company tightened what its machine will say to teenagers. Another added alerts for parents. Phones now want a picture of your face to check your age. One company opened a center to…
Every one of us has stood in front of somebody who held power over us. A boss. A judge. A bank. You stand there and wait to hear what they decide. Most of life works that way. Somebody else sits up high and you wait below. There is one day when that turns around. On…
There is a lot of worry going around right now. People are asking me if their vote will count. They are asking if anybody can stop it. I understand the worry. But worry does better when it knows the facts. So let me walk you through how this works, one step at a time. On…
I need to have a talk with you today. It’s about how you find these posts, and how some days you don’t. Every morning I write a post. I put it up on my site. Then I share it on Facebook so you can find it. That’s the plan, and some days it works fine….