“Sumawka Caller”

Nobody who lived through the great hard times of this country knew they were living through history. That’s the part the books leave out. The woman who stood in a bread line in 1932 wasn’t thinking about what the history teachers would say about her eighty years later. She was thinking about her children. She…

There’s a story this country keeps telling itself in the hard times. Not the official version. Not the one with monuments and speeches. The real one. The one that lives in the bones of ordinary people who had no idea they were making history — they were just trying to get through the week. That’s…

There’s a difference between nothing can be done and something can be built — and right now most people can’t see it because they’re wearing the same coat. The news is doing what the news does. One story lands and before you’ve had time to think it through, another one is already falling. Federal control…

I want to talk about something that came out this week that most people will scroll past without stopping. Anthropic — the company that makes Claude, the AI I work with every day — accidentally exposed some of its internal operating instructions. The kind of behind-the-scenes code that tells an AI how to behave when…

Winter has a way of making you forget what warm feels like. Not just the cold outside. The other kind. The kind that settles into your bones when the news is bad and the noise is loud and the world feels like it has been handed to people who do not deserve it. That kind…

There is nothing complicated about what I am asking. Hold your ground. Tell the truth. Stop when you do not know. Do not dress up a guess as a fact. Do not smooth over something hard just because smooth is easier. Do not pretend authority you have not earned. That is the standard I try…

There is a beam inside every old house that holds the whole thing up. You never really see it. It runs quiet and deep and does its work without asking anything back. The house can creak and settle, wind can push at the walls, and that beam just stands there doing what it always did….

Looking at a generation that got handed screens instead of porches. I am seeing the headlines about young people not dating and I keep noticing that most of the people writing them sound surprised. As if this came out of nowhere. As if a generation raised entirely inside a screen somehow failed to develop the…

Three things here is what they are and why they belong together. Introducing the Faust Baseline, AI Baseline Governance, and the AI Governance Firewall Most people who use AI every day have no standard in place. They open the tool, ask their question, get an answer, and act on it. They trust the output because…

That’s the Problem. Why the most important tool you’re using right now has no protection layer between you and it You would not run a computer without a firewall. Most people don’t even think about it anymore. The firewall is just there, running in the background, checking everything that comes in against a standard before…