“Sumawka Caller”

You’ve done it many times before. Driving a country road. No particular hurry, but moving. And up ahead on the shoulder there’s a little stand. Hand-painted sign. Baskets set out. Somebody’s fruit, grown close by, sitting in the open where you could reach it. You slow, maybe. Half a foot off the gas. And then…

I planted a good tree. Fourteen months. One row at a time. Every day, in Kentucky, with no crowd watching and nobody telling me I had to. And it bears. That part I know for certain. The fruit is real. I’ve held it. I’ve set it out in the open, for free, low and easy,…

In aerospace, nothing flies because someone said it would. A part does not go on an aircraft because the man who made it swears it is good. It goes on because it was tested. Put on a stand. Loaded past what it will ever see in service. Measured. Stamped with a number. Written into a…

The dime solution for a billion dollar problem. Confusion and redo creates cost. Discipline creates precision. Precision generates savings. That’s the whole argument. Everything below just proves it. Here’s the problem nobody is pricing right now. AI data centers are booming. Companies are spending billions to build them — Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Meta, Oracle, all…

For a while, the AI conversation in business circles was about capability. Can it write the email. Can it summarize the contract. Can it speed up the workflow. That conversation is over, and a new report from KPMG just put a number on what replaced it. KPMG surveyed 1,224 senior leaders at large global organizations,…

That sentence gets said in every meeting where someone proposes putting AI into a high-stakes process. A human will check its work. It’s the line that lets everyone relax. The machine might make mistakes, sure, but there’s a person standing right there to catch them. A new study just tested that sentence against real behavior,…

No Model Can See Everything. The Honest Ones Say So. A new study just measured something most people assumed was already solved. Researchers gave eighteen different AI models — the big commercial ones and the open-source ones — a real human IQ test. Not a trivia exam. A fluid intelligence test. The kind built to…

I Was Born Into the 7th Generation of This Republic. I Wrote the Baseline for the 10th. I was born in 1954. That is 178 years after the Declaration of Independence was signed. Seven generations of Americans lived and died between that document and the day I arrived. Seven generations of people who inherited what…

Two hundred and fifty years ago a group of people sat down and wrote a code of conduct for a government that did not exist yet. They did not wait for the institutions to build themselves. They did not wait for a universal standard to emerge from the existing authorities. They did not wait for…

The compliance profession just looked at itself in the mirror. What it saw was not flattering. LRN published its 2026 Program Effectiveness Report. The numbers are worth sitting with before moving past them. Only 33 percent of organizations reference AI ethics in their codes of conduct. That means two out of three companies deploying AI…