This is the Substack link .  Here's what I mean by the Machine Frontier, a concept that was central to my book on technological catastro...

I visited my brothers' tree farm in Missouri last week, in time to help clear storm damage by operating their Cat skidsteer. Storm: as i...

Another r eminder to join the   Mistake-makers’ club  !  Thinking back of mishaps in my family, it strikes me that the most dangerous place ...

This might be mildly amusing ...       When in 2003 I started doing commentaries for History Channel and National Geographic Channel, I grea...

Continuing the previous post , thinking of memorable times on the job and while researching a story: During an expediter run on a constructi...

These are frustrating times for nonfiction writers, between AI competition and advertising's massive shift from print to search engines,...

  I'm a fan of this classic silent  movie , and wondered what the computer banks behind OpenAI might say about it. My prompt to the Chat...