Day two of the RAGBRAI log: rooftop carrier on, tent mounted, trailer cleaned and checked out — and a sunburn to show for it.
T-minus 5 days to RAGBRAI: the trailer’s packed, the bike’s tuned, and the new Kia Carnival gets its first tow across the country.
Lance Eaton wrote a careful piece on agentic AI in education. He names a real tension. Agentic tools cut friction. Learning needs friction. He’s right to worry. He’s also looking at the wrong layer. The interesting thing isn’t Claude Code itself (although it’s a fun…
Rockbridge County is quietly exceptional for cycling. You get real climbs, real valleys, and roads that still feel agricultural rather than optimized for speed. Over time, a handful of routes have become my go-tos—not because they’re the hardest or longest, but because each one has…
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There’s a line I read this week that’s pretty compelling: encryption, Doctorow says, makes it possible to scramble a photo so thoroughly that even if every hydrogen atom in the universe were made into a computer, we still wouldn’t have enough universe to brute-force the…
I spent nine days building ourss, an opinionated RSS reader that leans into the weird web. It runs in human-scale instances, lets friends trade links inside their node, and generates a daily digest that summarizes what you actually read while recommending what to read next….
I’ve been using OmniFocus for my personal task management for almost a decade now, and one of its most useful features are the integrations into my email, web browsing, etc. So when the Chrome plugin went belly up a while back I was kind of…
Emerging signal: I’m seeing more and more hands-on pros—engineers, surgeons in the OR, mechanics—push back on the notion that AI is about to swallow the physical world whole. After almost two decades working in hardware, I get it. Bits travel at the speed of a…
In this engaging episode, we sit down with Wendy Bolger, the dynamic director of the Simon Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Wendy brings a wealth of experience from her previous role at Mercy Corps and her extensive background in social entrepreneurship. Recognized as one of…