I have spent thirty years spending it. Here is what fluency actually sells, why a machine just broke the deal, and why my own skepticism keeps waving through the voices I lean toward.

What the driver's seat reveals about consequence, feedback, and the variable both post-labor and AI optimism miss.

For about a year after that, I did what someone with my résumé is supposed to do. I pursued the next role. A dozen or so serious leads. Most of them reached the second or third interview, a few the fourth. None ended in an offer. The market kept telling me, politely and at length, no.

In a previous essay I argued that Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical on artificial intelligence did something remarkable and then walked away from it. It reached the architectural diagnosis almost no one reaches, that displacement is a choice made at the point of deployment, not a fact of nature descendin...

A judge reads a sentence. The defendant stands. The crime is not in dispute. The facts were established, the process followed, and the verdict reached by peers. By every procedural measure, justice has been done.