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Latest — 20 Feb 2026

Principles

As I mentioned in the last several weeks, I've taken to creating an app a week using the latest AI tools – I don't have a prayer of understanding the AI wave unless I immerse myself. This week, I turned introspective and built a world cloud app

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Seattle News

First off — SEAHAWKS!!!! Man, what a season. And while the Super Bowl lacked excitement in some people’s eyes, I love a great defense and a great kicking game. This sack was wonderful – over and through a lineman: AI and Microsoft I dropped my Microsoft Copilot subscription this week. I

Vibe check

We seem to be in the midst of a pretty significant disconnect between vibes and reality, at all levels of our society. Look at the national economic policy. The government is erecting trade walls and telling us all that this is going to be great for the resurgence of US

Optimism hits the wall

I’m very late posting this week. I’ve been struggling with cognitive dissonance. I want to write about the great advances in software, how we can best direct this innovation, and the great opportunities, etc. But then, our government is shooting people in the street. After some struggle, I

Leadership highs, leadership lows

I learned some very clear leadership lessons in my career -- both positive and negative.

A bit of this, a bit of that

Reading Ted Gioia is always inspirational, and he recently shared how he came to love reading, and what that might imply for encouraging reading. The factors that influenced him: I was exposed to the joy of storytelling at a very early age. I soon learned how to read for fun,

2025 book roundup

The best books this year reminded me of the importance of working day by day, laying brick by brick.

Washington State Income Tax Thoughts

I’m having some cognitive dissonance around Washington State tax policy. We are a progressive state, I am ok with paying for a strong set of social services, and we have a regressive tax structure, so I get the arguments for an income tax in place of a sales tax.

Carrots and Sticks

The 2nd Trump administration has allocated ~$75B to deportation efforts (One Big Beautiful Bill). Additionally, there might be another $2B in funding diverted from military spending. I am sure there are other monies squirreled away in different budgets. But whatever, $75B is a significant number. And it is many, many

Looking past the current disaster

I could spend this morning lamenting the current state of our government and leadership, but I would add nothing original to the discussion. I accept that most of our government institutions are going to be broken, and we need to start thinking about how to pick up the pieces. It